Menoetius was a Titan god, son of Titans Iapetus and Clymene, and brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. His name derives from the Ancient Greek words "menos" (might) and "oitos" (doom), meaning "doomed might". Based on the descriptions of various resources, he may have been the Titan of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality, and he often committed hubris, having superfluous pride. During the Titanomachy, Zeus killed Menoetius and banished him to Tartarus.
Menoitios, 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 fight of the Titans, and thrown into Tartarus.
Menoitios and his brothers all represented human foibles--Prometheus was exceedingly crafty, Epimetheus a fool, Atlas exceedingly daring, and Menoitios insolent and hubristic.
He was perhaps the same as Menoites, herdsman of Haides, whom Herakles encountered and wrestled with in the underworld. This connection with cattle might suggest Menoitios-Menoites was the same as Bouphagos "the Cattle-Eater"--an hubristic son of Iapetos who assaulted the goddess Artemis in Arkadia.
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