person
Atlas
The Titan who upholds the sky; Hercules took the burden onto himself while Atlas fetched the apples of the Hesperides.
Reading notes
- The Heroides §9 Atlas
The Titan who upholds the sky; Hercules briefly bore the heavens in his stead.
- The Heroides §16 Atlas
The Titan who bears the sky; ancestor of Mercury (and of the Pleiades) on his mother's side.
- The Festivals §4.proem Atlas
The Titan father of the Pleiades, here named as Electra's father and so Dardanus's grandfather.
- Metamorphoses §2.18 Atlas
The Titan who upholds the sky on his shoulders; here the heated axle scorches him.