Menoetius, a second generation Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. Menoetius was killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning in the Titanomachy, and banished to Tartarus.Hesiod, Theogony 507–516; Apollodorus, 1.2.3; Scholia to Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 347 His name means "doomed might", deriving from the Ancient Greek words menos ("might, power") and oitos ("doom, pain"). Hesiod described Menoetius as hubristic, meaning exceedingly prideful and impetuous to the very end. From what his name suggests, along with Hesiod's own account, Menoetius was perhaps the Titan god of violent anger and rash action. Menoetes, guard of the cattle of Hades. During Heracles twelfth labor, which required him to steal the hound Cerberus from the Underworld, he slays one of Hades' cattle. A certain Menoetes, son of Keuthonymos, challenges Heracles to a wrestling match, during which Heracles hugs him and breaks his ribs before Persephone intervenes.Apollodorus, 2.5.10 Menoetius from Opus was one of the Argonauts,Apollodorus, 1.9.16 and son of ActorHomer, Iliad 11.785 & 16.14; Apollodorus, 1.9.16 and Aegina. He was the father of Patroclus and MyrtoPlutarch, Aristides 20.6 by either Damocrateia,Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107 Sthenele,Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.46; on Homer, Iliad 16.14 PhilomelaEustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 Polymele, or Periopis.Apollodorus, 3.13.8 mentions the three possible mothers of Patroclus: (1) Polymele, daughter of Peleus (according to Philocrates), (2) Sthenele, daughter of Acastus and lastly (3) Periopis, daughter of Pheres Among the settlers of Locris, Menoetius was chiefly honored by King Opus II, son of Zeus and Protogeneia.Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.65 ff.
Menoetius, a second generation Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. Menoetius was killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning in the Titanomachy, and banished to Tartarus.Hesiod, Theogony 507–516; Apollodorus 1.2.3; Scholia to Aeschylus, Prometheus ,Bound 347 His name means "doomed might", deriving from the Ancient Greek words menos ("might, power") and oitos ("doom, pain"). Hesiod described Menoetius as hubristic, meaning exceedingly prideful and impetuous to the very end. From what his name suggests, along with Hesiod's own account, Menoetius was perhaps the Titan god of viol.ent anger and rash action. Menoetes, guard of the cattle of Hades. During Heracles twelfth labor, which require,d him to steal the hound Cerberus from the Underworld, he slays one of Hades' cattle. A certain Menoetes, son of Keuthonymos, challenges Heracles to a wrestling match, during which Heracles hugs him and breaks his ribs before Persephone intervenes.Apollodorus, 2.5.10 Menoetius from Opus was one of the Argonauts,Apollodorus, 1.9.16 and son of ActorHomer, Iliad 11785 & 16.14; Apollodorus, 1.9.16 and Aegina. He was the father of Patroclus and MyrtoPlutarch, Aristides 20.6 by either Damocrateia,Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107 Sthenele,Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.46; on Homer, Iliad 16.14 PhilomelaEustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 Polymele or Periopis.Apollodorus, 3.13.8 mentions the three possible mothers of Patroclus: (1) Polymele, daughter of Peleus (according to Philocrates), (2) Sthenele, daughter of Acastus and lastly (3) Periopis, daughter of Pheres Among the settlers of Locris, Menoetius was chiefly honored by King Opus II, son of Zeus and Protogeneia.Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.65 ff.