Iapetos (Iapetus) may have been the Titan god who presided over the mortal life-span who assigned mortal creatures their finite lot. Like his brother Titanes, he was a god of time, one of the sons of Ouranos, the great dome of heaven which measured all of time.

Iapetus is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as being in Tartarus with Cronus. He is a brother of Cronus, who ruled the world during the Golden Age but is now locked up in Tartarus along with Iapetus.

In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: Τιτᾶνες, romanized: Tītânes; sing., Τιτάν, Tītā́n) were the deities who preceded the Olympians. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial deities Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth).

Iapetus, the Greek Titan of mortality and human limits — father of Prometheus, Atlas, and the divine struggle that shaped mankind.

Iapetus was a Titan god of mortal life span and Pillar of the west. Together with Coeus, Hyperion and Crius they were pesonified as the Pillars holding heaven and earth apart.

One lesser-known Titan who contributed heavily to the mythology is Iapetus. Also known as Iepetos or Japetus, this Titan god represented mortality and craftsmanship. For many scholars and Greek mythology experts, he’s considered the father of the human race.

Iapetus was the deity of mortality. He was in charge of regulating the average lifespan of mortals. He was commonly portrayed as a harsh, emotionless figure, signifying the universal inevitability of death that confronts all mortals.

The Titan Iapetus was the god of craftsmanship or mortality, varying between sources. He married one of his Oceanid nieces, Clymene, and they produced four sons: Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.

Meet all 28 Titans of Greek mythology, far beyond the famous twelve — from Cronus and Rhea to the obscure second-generation gods most lists skip.

The Titans were six elder gods in Greek mythology named Cronus, Coeus, Crius, Iapetus, Hyperion and Oceanus, sons of Heaven and Earth, who ruled the early cosmos.