Atlas

Family: Titans · Role: giant bearing the pillars of earth and heaven · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 2

Life events

• Heracles relieves Atlas of the heavens’ burden and supports the gods’ abode.(Euripides, Hercules Distracted — Scene 3)
  • With: Heracles
  • “The wearied Atlas he relieved, His arm the starry realms upheaved, And propped the gods’ abode.”

Euripides, Hercules Distracted — Scene 3

• with Heracles (Heracles relieved Atlas of the heavens' burden.) “Then from the heavens’ huge load The wearied Atlas he relieved, His arm the starry realms upheaved, And propped the gods’ abode.”
• with Heracles (Heracles assisted Atlas by relieving him of the heavens’ burden.) “Then from the heavens’ huge load The wearied Atlas he relieved, His arm the starry realms upheaved, And propped the gods’ abode.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.