Atlas Greek God Drawing. He personified the quality of endurance atlaô. According to others he was instead or later appointed guardian of the pillars which held the earth and sky asunder.
Atlas in Greek mythology son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene or Asia and brother of Prometheus creator of humankind. Learn to Draw Zeus Standing majestically with his thunderbolt here is Zeus King of the Gods of Olympus. After the defeat of the Titans many of them became loyal to Tartarus but the Zeus the highest Greek deity decided to punish Atlas in a very peculiar way.
The expression to carry the weight of the world on ones shoulders comes from the Greek myth of Atlas who was part of the second generation of the Titans the oldest gods of Greek mythology.
Over 80315 Atlas pictures to choose from with no signup needed. Updated November 14 2019. In Homers Odyssey Book I Atlas seems to have been a marine creature who supported the pillars that held heaven and earth apart. Pleione may have been numbered amongst the Epimelides Sheep-Nymphs and presided over the multiplication of the flocks--for her name means to increase in number and her grandson Hermes was the god of animal husbandry.
