Menoetius or
Menoetes (;
Menoitios) meaning
doomed might referred to three distinct beings:
Titan
A son of
Iapetus and
Clymene or
Asia, and a brother of
Atlas,
Prometheus and
Epimetheus, was killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning, in the
War of the Titans, and banished to
Tartarus. 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 account, Menoetius was perhaps the Titan god of violent anger and rash action.