Hold Up the Sky

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THAT being said, his stories ARE generally consistent. The strongest ones are the ones that mix high-SF with down-to-earth characterization. The most notable of these is the first story. The Villiage Teacher. In some myths Atlas was charged to hold the Earth, not the Sky, and this also is related to the book of maps called an Atlas. Grafton, A.; Most, G. W.; Settis, S., eds. (2010). The Classical Tradition (2013ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-07227-5. LCCN 2010019667. OCLC 957010841. The Lightning Thief | The Sea of Monsters | The Titan's Curse | The Battle of the Labyrinth | The Last Olympian A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

The Atlas Mountains in North Africa are named after him with the story of Perseus using Medusa's head to freeze Atlas into a mountain. In The Last Olympian, with Atlas still imprisoned under the weight of the sky, Hyperion appears to have replaced him as Kronos' second-in-command. After the Olympians' assault on Mount Othrys, Zeus confined his four Titan uncles to Tartarus as punishment. Laughing at the gods' ignorance, Atlas reveals that the presence of the four Titan Lords is the only thing keeping the sky in place. As a solution to this problem, Zeus had the Elder Cyclopes chain Atlas to a mountain and cause the sky to form a central support pillar, which they then forced upon his shoulders to bear as punishment.

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German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published “Atlas: or cosmographical meditations upon the creation of the universe and the universe as created” in 1595. This collection of maps was not the first collection of its kind, but it was the first to call itself an Atlas. According to Mercator himself, the book was named after Atlas, “The King of Mauretania.” Mercator believed that this Atlas was the man from whom the myths of the Titans arose, and sourced most of the story of Atlas from Diodorus’ writings. Atlas in Architecture Hornblower, S.; Spawforth, A.; Eidinow, E., eds. (2012). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4thed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954556-8. LCCN 2012009579. OCLC 799019502. It might be recognized that a number of these children of Atlas became a part of the night sky, as constellations. Maia, the leader of the seven Pleiades, would also become a lover of Zeus, giving birth to Hermes, the fleet-footed messenger of the Olympian gods. Is Atlas the Strongest Titan? He is loyal to Kronos' cause and seems to have a lust for blood much like Ares, as when he says to Artemis when he has her cornered, "The first blood in a new war." He is also described as "laughing insanely as he fought." Atlas also despises the punishment the gods gave him (holding the sky on his shoulders for all eternity) and writhes with anguish when forced to endure it again. This is probably why he bears a short temper and why he finds delight in battling gods and demigods alike. Atlas was also spiteful and extremely dismissive of other humans, even Luke, but this could be derived from Atlas' status as a Titan. While assessing his injuries, the doctor had discovered that he had esophageal cancer. There was a high incidence of this sort of cancer in the region, so it wasn’t a rare diagnosis. The doctor congratulated him on his good fortune—he had come while the cancer was still in an early stage, before it had started to metastasize. It was curable with surgery; in fact, esophageal cancer was one of the types of cancer against which surgery was most effective. His broken ribs might well have saved his life.

Vogel, L. Z.; Savva, Stavroula (1993-12-01). "Atlas personality". British Journal of Medical Psychology. 66 (4): 323–330. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1993.tb01758.x. ISSN 2044-8341. PMID 8123600. In The Last Olympian, Atlas is known to be very bitter towards Kronos after being trapped under the sky again because he wished to be on the front lines of the war. He also hates holding up the sky because he can do nothing productive for the Titans' cause. It is also well established that he is held in contempt by other Titans, such as Hyperion and Krios, the latter of whom refers to the duty of having to 'babysit' him instead of fighting the war alongside Kronos. Akerman, J. R. (1994). "Atlas, la genèse d'un titre". In Watelet, M. (ed.). Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas Europae. Antwerp: Bibliothèque des Amis du Fonds Mercator. pp.15–29. Lemprière, J. (1833). Anthon, C. (ed.). A Classical Dictionary. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill [etc.] LCCN 31001224. OCLC 81170896.Aeneid iv.247: " Atlantis duri" and other instances; see Robert W. Cruttwell, "Virgil, Aeneid, iv. 247: 'Atlantis Duri'" The Classical Review 59.1 (May 1945), p. 11.