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Menoetius orMenoetes (/məˈniːʃiəs/;Ancient Greek:Μενοίτιος, ΜενοίτηςMenoitios), meaningdoomed might, is a name that refers to three distinct persons fromGreek mythology:

• Menoetius, a second generationTitan, son ofIapetus andClymene orAsia, and a brother ofAtlas,Prometheus andEpimetheus. Menoetius was killed byZeus with a flash of lightning in theTitanomachy, and banished toTartarus.^[1] His name means "doomed might", deriving from the Ancient Greek wordsmenos ("might, power") andoitos ("doom, pain"). Hesiod described Menoetius ashubristic, 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.^[2]
• Menoetes, guard of the cattle of Hades. DuringHeracles twelfth labor, which required him to steal the houndCerberus from the Underworld, he slays one of Hades' cattle. A certain Menoetes, son ofKeuthonymos, challenges Heracles to a wrestling match, during which Heracles hugs him and breaks his ribs beforePersephone intervenes.^[3]
• Menoetius fromOpus was one of theArgonauts,^[4] and son ofActor^[5] andAegina. He was the father ofPatroclus andMyrto^[6] by eitherDamocrateia,^[7]Sthenele,^[8]Philomela^[9][10]Polymele, orPeriopis.^[11] Among the settlers of Locris, Menoetius was chiefly honored by KingOpus II, son of Zeus andProtogeneia.^[12]

• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Hesiod,Theogony, inThe Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar,Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar,The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John,Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

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• Children of Iapetus

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