Menoetius

Menoetius was struck as the fighting raged. Zeus raised his thunderbolt and hurled it at the Titan, whose insolent and violent presumption had placed him against the Olympian forces. The blow overcame Menoetius. Zeus then cast him into Tartarus as punishment.

The war had begun after Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from Cronus. Rhea had saved him as an infant by giving Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. Zeus was hidden in a Cretan cave, where Amaltheia fed him and the armed Curetes beat their spears against their shields to conceal his cries. Other accounts place the cave on Mount Dicte, or describe the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida raising him.

When Zeus was grown, Metis gave Cronus a drug. Cronus disgorged the stone first, then Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Zeus led them against Cronus and the Titans. The Titanic stronghold stood on Mount Othrys, while Zeus and his allies held Olympus. The fighting continued for ten years.

The Cyclopes forged Zeus’s thunderbolts, Poseidon’s trident and Hades’ helmet of darkness. The Hecatoncheires also aided the Olympians. These allies helped break the deadlock, and Zeus eventually overthrew Cronus and the Titans. Many defeated Titans were confined in Tartarus. The sources differ over Menoetius: one account places him among those imprisoned, while another says that he escaped chthonic incarceration after the Titanomachy.