Iapetus (mythology) - Iapetus and Japheth

Iapetus and Japheth

Iapetus has (for example, by Robert Graves) been equated with Japheth (יֶפֶת), the son of Noah, based on the similarity of their names and on old Jewish traditions, that held Japheth as the ancestor of the Greeks, the Slavs, the Italics, the Teutons, the Dravidians etc. (see Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews). Similarly, Ham, son of Noah, was equated with "Jupiter Ammon", i.e. the Egyptian god Amun.