Atlas (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Atlas is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes: Heracles and
The Farnese Atlas, the oldest surviving depiction of the celestial sphere as a celestial globe.
Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).
Herkules und Atlas by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Atlas and Heracles, metope from the temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Titans
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In Greek mythology, the Titans were the deities who preceded the Olympians. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial deities Uranus and Gaia. The six male T
Atlas (mythology)
…In Greek mythology, Atlas (; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας, romanized: Átlas) is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes…
The Fall of the Titans (1596–98), a mythological painting by Dutch painter Cornelis van Haarlem.
The Mutilation of Uranus by Saturn: fresco by Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi, c. 1560 (Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio)
Rhea presenting Cronus the stone wrapped in cloth
"Fall of the Titans". Oil on canvas by Jacob Jordaens, 1638.