Atlas

Holds the sky on his shoulders

Genealogy

Asia

Iapetus

Epimetheus, Menoetius, Prometheus

Alcyone, Calypso, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, Sterope, Taygete

Places
  1. Garden of the Hesperides
  2. Hyperborea
  3. Nowhere
Events
  1. Atlas is born
  2. Hercules takes over holding up the sky for Atlas
  3. Atlas retrieves the golden apples from the Hesperides
  4. Hercules tricks Atlas into resuming the task of holding up the sky
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 2.3
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 9.3
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 9.5
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.11
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 10.1
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 12.1
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 7.24
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 30.8
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 18.10
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 33.6
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 10.6
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 10.9
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 11.5
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 18.4
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 19.8
  16. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 12.7
  17. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 43.3
  18. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 48.6
  19. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 20.3
  20. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 22.5
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