/ˈætləs/
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‘greek’ —> Ἄτλας / Átlas
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(in ‘greek mythology’, atlas was a ‘titan’ condemned to hold up the ‘celestial heavens’ for eternity after the ‘titanomachy’)
atlas sided with the titans in the war against the olympians
but the olympians emerged victorious
so atlas was condemned by zeus to hold the celestial spheres upon his shoulders
(to prevent the primordial embrace of uranus and gaia)
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(‘atlas’ also plays a role in the myths of 2 of the greatest greek heroes…)
- ‘heracles’
(the roman equivalent being ‘hercules’) - ‘perseus’
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(according to the ancient greek poet ‘hesiod’, ‘atlas’ stood at the ends of the earth in ‘extreme west’)
(later, he became commonly identified with the ‘atlas mountains’ in ‘northwest africa’ + was said to be “king of mauretania”)
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(‘atlas’ was said to have been skilled in… )
- ‘philosophy’
- ‘mathematics’
- ‘astronomy’
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(in ‘antiquity’, he was credited with inventing the first ‘celestial sphere’)
(in some texts, he is even credited with the invention of ‘astronomy’ itself)
(‘atlas’ was the son of the titan ‘iapetus’ + the oceanid ‘asia’ (or ‘clymene’))
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(he had many children (mostly daughters)…)
- ‘the hesperides’
- ‘the hyades’
- ‘the pleiades’
- ‘the nymph ‘calypso’’
(who lived on the island ‘ogygia’)
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(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’)
(the “atlantic ocean” means “sea of atlas”, while “atlantis” means “island of atlas”, with some myths calling the deity a king of ‘atlantis’)
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