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Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).. The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain. Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, "hard, enduring", [9] which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλῆναι "to endure"; Doig offers the further ...
Articles to the Greek god Atlas and his depictions. He was a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy in Greek mythology . Subcategories
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Chimaera, Greek mythological character – Chimaera The term "chimaera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
Atlas: Titan, son of Iapetus. He was metamorphosed into the North-West-African Atlas Mountains after he supported the Titans against the Olympian gods during the Titanomachy. He holds Uranus (the sky) on his shoulders. I: 682, II: 296–742, IV: 628–772, VI: 174, IX: 273, XV: 149 [38] Aurora: Goddess of dawn and wife of Tithonus.
Farnese Atlas (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples). The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century CE Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe.Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period, it is the oldest extant statue of Atlas, a Titan of Greek mythology who is represented in earlier Greek vase painting, and the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere ...