Atlas - Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Atlas was a Greek Titan famed for his prodigious strength and endurance, condemned to shoulder the heavens for eternity. He once passed the burden of holding up the world to the hero Hercules, but was tricked into taking it back.
Hyades – Mythopedia
2023年9月18日 · The Hyades, daughters of the Titan Atlas, were goddesses who were placed in the night sky as a cluster of stars. They were associated above all with the rainy season. It was said that they made into stars after dying of grief for their dead brother, or, alternatively, as a reward for nursing Dionysus.
Calypso - Mythopedia
2023年1月6日 · Calypso, daughter of the Titan Atlas, was a Greek nymph and goddess. She lived on the island of Ogygia, where the hero Odysseus was shipwrecked on his way back from the Trojan War. Calypso rescued Odysseus and kept him on the island as her lover until finally commanded to let him go.
Greek Titans - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · The Titans included not only the original twelve children of Gaia and Uranus but also some of their descendants, such as Prometheus, Atlas, Metis, and Leto. Though they were sometimes represented as cruel in Greek mythology, the period during which the Titans ruled was nonetheless regarded as a Golden Age.
Menoetius – Mythopedia
2022年11月29日 · Menoetius, the son of Iapetus and the brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, was a rash and violent Titan. Caught on the wrong side of the war between the Olympians and the Titans, Menoetius was ultimately struck down by …
Ladon – Mythopedia
2023年3月23日 · Atlas, the Titan whom Zeus had forced to carry the heavens upon his shoulders, was usually said to have been the father of the Hesperides, the nymphs who watched over the golden apples. Heracles thus offered to place the heavens on his own shoulders while Atlas fetched the apples from his daughters.
Iapetus - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · However, Iapetus may have been associated with the attributes of his sons, such as the cleverness of Prometheus or the strength of Atlas, who held the heavens upon his shoulders. Family Iapetus was one of the twelve Titans who emerged from the primordial union of Gaia, the personification of the earth, and Uranus, the embodiment of the heavens.
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Heracles - Mythopedia
2023年7月14日 · In the end, Heracles managed to convince the Titan Atlas to get the apples for him (in some versions, Atlas was the father of the maidens guarding the garden). Since Atlas had been tasked by Zeus to hold up the heavens for eternity, Heracles agreed to shoulder the burden for him while he retrieved the apples.
Titans - Mythopedia
2023年3月13日 · The sons of the Titan Iapetus, on the other hand, suffered uniquely terrible fates: Menoetius was blasted by Zeus’ thunderbolt and cast into the Underworld with the other Titans as punishment for his hubris; Atlas was forced to support the heavens on his shoulders; and Prometheus was ultimately chained to a rock, where an eagle pecked out his ...