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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 ...
Atlas was second in command after Cronus. The war lasted ten years, but eventually Zeus and the other Olympians won. Zeus had the important Titans imprisoned in Tartarus much like Cronus did to his father, and the Hecatonchires were made their guards. Atlas was given the special punishment of holding up the sky.
Atlas was famously punished by Zeus, by being forced to hold up the sky on his shoulders, but none of the early sources for this story (Hesiod, Homer, Pindar, and Aeschylus) say that his punishment was as a result of the war. [82] According to Hyginus however, Atlas led the Titans in a revolt against Zeus (Jupiter). [83]
The sons of some Lamian Naiad nymphs of Cilicia were tasked with guarding the young Dionysus by Zeus, until Hera caught sight of him and punished his guardians by transforming them into some creatures, that in spite of being called Centaurs, are described as man-shaped with ox horns and horse tails.
Zeus drove Ixion from Mount Olympus and then struck him with a thunderbolt. He was punished by being tied to a winged flaming wheel that was always spinning: first in the sky and then in Tartarus. Only when Orpheus came down to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop spinning because of the music Orpheus was playing. Ixion's being ...
Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine ...
Netflix's Physical 100 is the newest surprise hit fitness challenge shot. Its grueling challenge called Punishment of Atlas is based on an ancient Greek myth.
Atlas (voiced by Scott McNeil) - A Titan who fought with Cronus during the Titanomachy. When the Olympian gods won, Zeus punished Atlas by having him hold up the sky causing him to have back pains that Pleione tends to. He tells the heroes about the Antikythera Device which can sink continents and which Cronus seeks to obtain. [12]