Atlas was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. Atlas was a leader of the Titans in their war against Zeus and after their defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders, as seen here in this statue, known as the Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century AD Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe. Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period, it is the oldest extant statue of Atlas. The sculpture is at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, in Italy.
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Atlas was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. Atlas was a leader of the Titans in their war against Zeus and after their defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders, as seen here in this statue, known as the Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century AD Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe. Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period, it is the oldest extant statue of Atlas. The sculpture is at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, in Italy.

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Atlas farnese atlas titan god titans atlas titans 2nd century ad helenistic period hellentistic sculpture Greek gods Greek statue of atlas roman marble statue religion ancient Greece

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