Atlas (mythology)

Atlas

Abode	Western edge of Gaia (the Earth)
Symbol	Globe
Consort	Pleione, Hesperius
Parents	Iapetus and Asia or Clymene
Children	The Hesperides, the Hyades, Hyas, the Pleiades, Calypso, Dione and Maera
Roman equivalent	Atlas

In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ˈætləs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας) was a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa (modern-day Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia). Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Clymene. He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island Ogygia. According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod Atlas stood at the ends of the earth towards the west.

According to Robert Graves's The Greek Myths, the Pelasgians believed the creator goddess assigned Atlas and Phoebe to govern the moon.