Clymene, neat-ankled daughter of Ocean, bore him to Iapetus between Atlas and Prometheus — and of the four brothers his story is the shortest and the harshest. Hesiod calls him 'very glorious' at his naming and 'outrageous' at his fall, and gives him a single fate: wide-seeing Zeus struck him with a lurid, smoking thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride. No battle is mentioned; in Hesiod, his character alone is the charge.2Hesiod — Theogony 507–511, 514–516⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

Apollodorus moves the blow onto the battlefield and deepens the pit: Menoetius, son of Iapetus and Asia, was smitten with a thunderbolt in the battle with the Titans, and Zeus hurled him down to Tartarus. Where Hesiod's Menoetius falls for what he is, Apollodorus' falls for the side he fought on — and lands in Tartarus rather than Erebus.3Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.2.3⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card

Hyginus, who keeps Clymene as Iapetus' consort, counts only three children in his genealogical preface — Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus. The blasted brother has fallen out of his catalogue altogether, as if the thunderbolt had burned him from the family record as well.4Hyginus — Fabulae, preface (Theogony)⚖Told differently in other tellings — change the lens on the card