Atlas

Atlas in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Atlas (English pronunciation: /ˈætləs/, Greek. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens from the ranges now called the Atlas Mountains. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia[1] or Klyménē (Κλυμένη):[2] "Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went ...

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Atlas in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(*)/Atlas), according to Hesiod (Hes. Th. 507, &c.), a son of Japetus and Clymene, and a brother of Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus; according to Apollodorus (1.2.3), his mother's name was Asia; and, according to Hyginus (Fab. Pracf.), he was a son of Aether and Gaea. For other accounts see Diod. 3.60, 4.27; Plat. Critias, p. 114; S...

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