What is Menoitios?
'''Menoitios''' (or '''Menoetius''') was the Titan god (perhaps) of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality. Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt and sent him to [[Erebos]] (the Underworld) as punishment for his hybristic behaviour. He was a son of [[Iapetus]] and [[Clymene]] or Asia, and a brother of [[Atlas (Titan)|Atlas]], [[Prometheus]] and [[Epimetheus]]. He was struck by [[Zeus]] with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, and thrown into [[Tartarus]] but he was not killed. (Hes. Theog. 507, &c., 514; Apollod. i. 2. § 3; Schol. ad Aeschyl. Prom. 347.) The name Menoitios was derives from the Greek words ''menos'' meaning variously might, force, spirit, passion, batterage, and ''oitos'' meaning ill-fated or doomed. [[Hesiod]] also describes him as ''hybristes'', a violent, overbearing and insolent man. Menoitios and his brothers, the sons of [[Iapetos]], were all depicted with extreme human foibles: Prometheus was overly crafty, Epimetheus a fool, and Atlas exceedingly daring. Menoitios was perhaps identical to Menoites the herdsman of [[Hades]], whom Herakles wrestled with in the underworld. This connection with cattle, suggests that he was also the same as Bouphagos (the Cattle Eater) son of Iapetos, a hybristic man who attacked the goddess Artemis in Arkadia. [[Category:Titans]]