11. [1.1] IAPETOS & KLYMENE (Hesiod Theogony 507, Hyginus Pref)[1.2] IAPETOS & ASIA (Apollodorus 1.8)[1.3] IAPETOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 4.627) iii. 3 (trans. In either case, the meaning of keeping asunder is implied. The rest of the sisters, later dying from grief, were made stars, and because they were many, were called Pleiades. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) : Ovid, Heroides 9. Athenian Red Figure Vase Painting C5th B.C. ", Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 150 (trans. 18. Aeschyl. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) A man holding a sword is coming towards Atlas. : to C1st A.D.) : The Hesperides (they were removed by the Eleans) were even in my time in the Heraion (Heraeum) (Temple of Hera); the treasury was made for the Epidamnians. . Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) "[Depicted on the walls of the palace of Aeetes :] There iron Atlas stands in Oceanus, the wave swelling and breaking on his knees; but the god himself [Helios the Sun] on high hurries his shining steeds across the old man's body, and spreads light about the curving sky; behind with smaller wheel follows his sister [Selene the Moon] and the crowded Pleiades and the fires whose tresses are wet with dripping rain [the Hyades]. Now Mercurius [Hermes] is your father--Mercurius whom fair Maia conceived and bore upon the snowy peak of Cyllene. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. . The location of this myth on the Atlantic coast presupposes the Atlas story. [18], One of the Twelve Labours of the hero Heracles was to fetch some of the golden apples which grow in Hera's garden, tended by Atlas' reputed daughters, the Hesperides which were also called the Atlantides, and guarded by the dragon Ladon. ", Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. ", Pindar, Pythian Ode 4. to C1st A.D.) : Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : In the Homeric description of Atlas, the idea of his being a superhuman or divine being, with a personal existence, seems to be blended with the idea of a mountain. The surface of Atlas is remarkably smooth, with a darker side for its south pole. "They [the Argonauts] found the sacred plot where, till the day before, the serpent Ladon, a son of the Libyan soil, had kept watch over the golden apples in the Garden of Atlas. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. According to others he was instead (or later) appointed guardian of the pillars which held the earth and sky asunder. "Atlas the baleful; he knows the depths of all the seas, and he, no other, guards [or holds] the tall pillars that keep the sky and earth apart. i. But Athene (Athena) retrieved them from him and took them back, for it was not permitted by diving law to locate them anywhere else. Day-Lewis) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) Hesiod, Theogony 507 ff (trans. 18. . lovely Teygeta (Taygeta), and dark-faced Elektra (Electra), and Alkyone (Alcyone), and bright Asterope, and Kelaino (Celaeno), and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot. The main rings are closer to the spacecraft than Atlas is, and the moon appears as only a small, white dot in the center of the image. ", Suidas s.v. "And they who bear the name of Atlas' daughters seven [the Pleiades] oft bewailed their sire's supremest labour of sustaining heaven. . So the commentary on Lykophron (Lycophron). ", Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. This interactive 3D globe features wonders of the world, political and physical maps, and weather. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : ", Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. [6] He was a brother of Epimetheus and Prometheus. In this account Atlas is not a shepherd but a King. (Od. Prom. : § 2.) Exoplanet Exploration Program NASA's science, technology and mission management office for the exploration of exoplanets. Not wanting to hold up the sphere, he told Herakles that he should carry the applies back to Eurystheus, and that Herakles could hold up the sky in his place. 27; Plat. 103 ff : He ruled the world's last lands and that far sea that greets the panting horses of the sun and welcomed their tired wheels. "The desolate dwelling place of Atlas [i.e. The belly of Atlas, for instance, one can see although he is bending forward, and one can perceive that he is panting. . At first, the story of Atlas referred to one mountain only, which was believed to exist on the extreme boundary of the earth; but, as geographical knowledge extended, the name of Atlas was transferred to other places, and thus we read of a Mauritanian, Italian, Arcadian, and even of a Caucasian, Atlas. For other accounts see Diod. 22 (trans. [24][25][26], Atlas was also a legendary king of Mauretania, the land of the Mauri in antiquity roughly corresponding with modern Maghreb. [22] The works of Eusebius[23] and Diodorus[4] also give an Atlantean account of Atlas. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. Atlas Marley’s glass dome is in Atlas, a planet where the giants used to live. to C1st A.D.) . 491A) (trans. "And they who bear the name of Atlas' daughters seven oft bewailed their sire's supremest labour of sustaining heaven, where as wingless Peleiades (Pleiades) they have the form of phantoms of the night [i.e. [From Caelum (Ouranos) and Terra (Gaia) were born ?] showing the heavens upheld by Atlas, and also Herakles (Heracles) and the apple-tree of the Hesperides, with the Drakon coiled round the apple-tree. and [elsewhere] Prometheus still held by his chains, though Herakles has been raised up to him. Spatial information informs decisions about how to build a better future. 20. 290 ff (trans. ", Statius, Thebaid 8. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Thus Atlas is described as the leader of the Titans in their contest with Zeus, and, being conquered, he was condemned to the labour of bearing heaven on his head and hands. For a collection of maps, see, Deity in Greek mythology who held up the heavens or sky, George Doig, "Vergil's Art and the Greek Language", The "testimony of Eusebius" was "drawn from the most ancient historians" according to Mercator. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) . ", Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides (Ladies of the West); for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him. Similarly in the case of Herakles (Heracles), when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place. The Titan is described as the guardian of these by Homer, and his release is mentioned by Pindar. i. ", Ovid, Heroides 16. ", Virgil, Aeneid 8. EVA #10. 247. : In front of it the son of Iapetos (Iapetus) [Atlas] stands immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying hands, where Nyx (Night) and Hemera (Day) draw near and greet one another as they pass the great threshold of bronze. "The heaven that is to bear you [Herakles], yourself one bore; Hercules bent to the load of the stars when Atlas was their stay. The son was killed by a wild boar or a lion, and the sisters, grieving for him, died of this grief. Hesiod only says, that he bore heaven with his head and hands. When the Titans were defeated, many of them (including Menoetius) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of Gaia (the Earth) and hold up the sky on his shoulders. Taurus], and bears, the kind that are seen here. 198 : Their child Pleione couples with sky-lifting Atlas--so the story is--and bears the Pleiades. "Atlas the baleful; he knows the depths of all the seas, and he, no other, guards (or holds) the tall pillars that keep the sky and earth apart. Hence the expression that heaven rested on his shoulders was regarded as a mere figurative mode of speaking. . . There are also reliefs of [their father] Atlas. to C1st A.D.) : For Atlas had worked out the science of astrology to a degree surpassing others and had ingeniously discovered the spherical nature of the stars, and for that reason was generally believed to be bearing the entire firmament upon his shoulders. . Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : (Diod. Mount Kerykios (Cerycius), the reputed birthplace of Hermes, and also a place called Polos. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) 52 ff (trans. "On Atlas . [N.B. (Hom. Libya]. ad Aen. 19. The 1,050-pound piano sized probe, which was launched January 19, 2006 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, zipped by the planet yesterday. His grandfather was Elium "King of Phoenicia" who lived in Byblos with his wife Beruth. Planet 4546B is located in the outer reaches of the Ariadne Arm, orbiting around the star 4546. Begone!’ he cried, ‘Or you shall find no joy in that renown your lies invent, no joy in Juppiter [Zeus]’, and added force to threats, as Perseus tried fair words at first, then bravely grappled him. (Comp. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) : Oceanus, Themis, Tartarus, Pontus; the Titanes : Briareus, Gyes, Steropes, Atlas, Hyperion, and Polus [Koios (Coeus)], Saturnus [Kronos (Cronus)], Ops [Rhea], Moneta [Mnemosyne], Dione." According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito. lament the greatness of the glory of your time-hallowed honor, the honor that was yours and your brother's [Atlas'] . . v. 11. ", Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2. Celestial globes were very important in navigation, when sailors used stars to determine their position at sea. Eusebius', For further comment on Mercator's chosen Titanic genealogy see, the personality of someone whose childhood was characterized by excessive responsibilities, on-line English translation at Theoi Project, Mercator & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) (2000), "The 'Lafreri school' of Italian mapmakers", Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlas_(mythology)&oldid=998715666, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles having same image on Wikidata and Wikipedia, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "[Atlas] perfected the science of astrology and was the first to publish to mankind the doctrine of the sphere. Hermes], Pleione's grandson." "Atlas : a mountain in Libya. ", Seneca, Hercules Furens 425 ff : : 2 (trans. "[Amongst the scenes depicted on the throne of Apollon at Amyklai (Amyclae) near Sparta :] To describe the reliefs . : Aeschylus, Fragment 172 (from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11. Atlas Iapetionides (son of Iapetos) surpassed all men in giant size. 62 ff (trans. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders. Greek Lyric II) (Greek lyric C6th to 5th B.C.) The five of them first put among the stars have their place between the horns of the bull--Phaesyla, Ambrosia, Coronis, Eudora, Polyxo--and are called, from their brother's name, Hyades . "And away by the boundary of Libya my [the Pleiad Elektra's] father still suffers hardship, old Atlas with chafing shoulders bowed, upholding the seven-zoned vault of the sky [seven-zoned, i.e. Atlas was discovered in October 1980 by the Voyager 1 probe. 20. 110 (trans. 62 ff (trans. . These brothers possessed flocks of sheep which excelled in beauty and were in colour of a golden yellow, this being the reason why the poets, in speaking of these sheep as mela, called them golden mela. to C1st A.D.) : Virgil, Aeneid 8. . Herakles (Heracles) in his labour to fetch the Apples of the Hesperides is said to have set up pillars at the ends of the earth, presumably to relieve the Titan Atlas of his burden. 80. [1.2] THE PLEIADES (by Pleione) (Apollodorus 3.110, Ovid Fasti 5.79) [4], Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia[5] or Clymene. 745; Tzetz. 4 : Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. "Atlas the baleful (oloophron); he knows the depths of all the seas, and he, no other, guards (or holds) the tall pillars that keep the sky and earth apart. Herakles (Heracles) encountered the Titan during his quest for the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. The hero also slew the Hesperian Drakon (Hesperian Dragon), which in vase painting appears as the Titan's tormentor, and built two great pillars at the ends of the earth, perhaps to relieve the Titan of his labour. [N.B. Atlas referred to a portrait of King Atlas, a mythical African monarch. One other Titan god before this I have seen in distress, enthralled in torment by adamantine bonds--Atlas, pre-eminent in mighty strength, who moans as he supports the vault of heaven on his back. . . 8 (trans. Fab. Similarly in the case of Heracles, when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place. Sources describe Atlas as the father, by different goddesses, of numerous children, mostly daughters. The first publisher to associate the Titan Atlas with a group of maps was the print-seller Antonio Lafreri, on the engraved title-page he applied to his ad hoc assemblages of maps, Tavole Moderne Di Geografia De La Maggior Parte Del Mondo Di Diversi Autori (1572);[41] however, he did not use the word "Atlas" in the title of his work, an innovation of Gerardus Mercator, who dedicated his "atlas" specifically to honour the Titan, Atlas, King of Mauretania, a learned philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. [29] The Northwest Africa region emerged as the canonical home of the King via separate sources. 8 : With Atlas also did Herakles (Heracles) contend, and that too without a command from Eurystheus, claiming that he could sustain the heavens better than Atlas. However, some philosophers, historians, and geographers have considered Plato’s story as truth.The debate over the Atlantis remained relatively quiet until 1882 when Minnesota’s Represen… : "By no weight will he [Herakles] be crushed who upbore the heavens. "[The golden apples of the Hesperides.] Returning with the apples he gave them to Eurystheus who made a present of them to Herakles. The know… Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. Critias, p. 114; Serv. ", Hesiod, Theogony 744 ff : "Does not even now great Atlas struggle to bear up the weight of heaven, far from his fathers' land and his possessions? An awesome 3D model of our Solar system for you to discover the universe and explore outer space. Discover a lot of fascinating facts and useful information about our planet! 296 ff (trans. Some of these are assigned conflicting or overlapping identities or parentage in different sources. [28] Diodorus and Palaephatus mention that the Gorgons lived in the Gorgades, islands in the Aethiopian Sea. 80. : So when Herakles reached Atlas among the Hyperboreans, he remembered Prometheus' advise and took over the sphere. to C1st A.D.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Homer, Odyssey 1. 130.) . "The stormy Peleiades (Pleiades) . Hyginus emphasises the primordial nature of Atlas by making him the son of Aether and Gaia.[40]. For he saw that Atlas was bowed over and crushed by the weight and that he was crouching on one knee alone and barely had strength left to stand, while as for himself, he averred that he could raise the heavens up and after setting them aloft could hold them for a long time. "There is near Tanagra [in Boiotia (Boeotia)] . 119 - 120 : Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. Athenian Black Figure Vase Painting C6th B.C. Atlas was painted by Panaenus on the parapet surrounding the statue of the Olympian Zeus (Paus. Atlas who props the starry sky. The common opinion, however, was, that the heaven-bearing Atlas was in the north-western part of Africa, and the range of mountains in that part of the world bears the name of Atlas down to this day. ", Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. ", See also Atlas & the Labour of Heracles (below). "On those shoulders [of Herakles], on which the royal structure of the lofty sky had rested.". But you may have to act fast as this top atlas planet is set to become one of the most sought-after best-sellers in no time. Subsequently Herakles tricked the Titan into retaking the heavens upon his shoulders, or erected the Pillars of Heaven to permanently relieve Atlas of his burden. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. Ge (Gaia, Earth) had given them to Zeus when he married Hera. The term Atlas has been used to describe a collection of maps since the 16th century when Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published his work in honor of the mythological Titan. : [This is said] in reference to those who undertake great matters and encounter misfortune. 315 ff : Atlas, fearful of a prophecy which warned of a son of Zeus stealing his golden apples from his orchard, refuses Perseus hospitality. Then each part grew beyond all measure (so the gods ordained) and on his shoulders rested the whole vault of heaven with all the innumerable stars. 750 ff (trans. [Hyas while hunting] sought the lair and brood of the whelped lioness and was bloody prey to the Libyan beast. ad Aen. ", Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. Thus Herakles picked them up and left. from the sun, moon, planets and fixed stars]. : Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. The identifying name Aril is inscribed on two 5th-century BC Etruscan bronze items: a mirror from Vulci and a ring from an unknown site. 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