changes based on consulting The Columbia Milton and Merritt Y. Hughes . children of Iapetus. According to one Greek myth, all mortals are children of Iapetus (or Japetus), father of Prometheus. See Hesiod, Theogony 507-10 and Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.604-705 . Taenarus. According to Appolodorus, Library 2.5.10-11 , Taenarum in Laconia is