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Prometheus vs Iapetus - What's the difference?

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prometheus

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Greek god) The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft.
  • (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "Prometheus")

    iapetus

    English

    (wikipedia Iapetus)

    Alternative forms

    * Japetus

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Greek god) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
  • (astronomy) The third largest moon of Saturn
  • (geology) An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 184:
    • So, in the early Ordovician, Iapetus was wide enough to have one side in high latitudes and the other in the tropics: a massive ocean, indeed.

    Derived terms

    * Iapetian

    References