Atlas
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Summary
Atlas is a titan[1]. He ranks in the top 8% of titan entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,731 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Father: Iapetos[3]
- Mother: Asia[4], Klymene[5]
- Spouse: Pleione[6], Aethra[7]
- Child: Merope[8], Hyas[9], Taygete[10], Maia[11], Celaeno[12], Calypso[13], Alcyone[14], Sterope[15], Electra[16], Hesperus[17], Ambrosia[18], Cleeia[19], Coronis[20], Polyxo[21]
- Position held: king of Atlantis[22]
- Sex or gender: male[23]
- Commons category: Atlas (mythology)[24]
- Unmarried partner: Hesperis[25]
- Topic's main category: Category:Atlas (mythology)[26]
- Work location: Ancient Greece[27]
- Depicted by: Atlas[28]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[29], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[30], Literary Encyclopedia 1929—1939[31], Pauly–Wissowa[32], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[33], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[34], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[35], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[36], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[37], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[38], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[39], The New Student's Reference Work[40]
- Manifestation of: Atlas[41]
- Name in native language: Ἄτλας[42]
- Different from: Atlas[43]
- Sibling: Prometheus[44], Menoetius[45], Epimetheus[46], Eumelus[47]
- Appears in the form of: rock[48]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[49]
Body
Works and Contributions
Things named for Atlas include Atlantic Ocean[50], an ocean[51]; Slava-class guided missile cruiser[52], a ship class[53], founded in 1979[54]; Attacus atlas[55], a taxon[56]; atlas[57]; ATLAS experiment[58], a particle physics experiment[59], in Switzerland[60]; Atlas Network[61], an alliance[62], founded in 2001[63]; Atlantic bible[64]; and Mount Atlas[65].
Why It Matters
Atlas has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[66] He is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[67]
Entities named for him include Atlantic Ocean[50], an ocean[51]; Slava-class guided missile cruiser[52], a ship class[53], founded in 1979[54]; Attacus atlas[55], a taxon[56]; atlas[57]; ATLAS experiment[58], a particle physics experiment[59], in Switzerland[60]; and Atlas Network[61], an alliance[62], founded in 2001[63].
FAQs
Who were Atlas's parents?
Atlas's father was Iapetos[3]. Atlas's mother was Asia[4].