Atlas

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Titan deity mythologicalFigure

Atlas is a Titan from Greek mythology best known for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders as punishment from the gods.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Titan → deity → mythologicalFigure →
associatedLocation	Garden of the Hesperides →
associatedWith	endurance → navigation and astronomy → strength → western ocean →
category	Characters in Greek mythology → Titans in Greek mythology →
causeOfPunishment	participation in the Titanomachy against the Olympian gods →
child	Alcyone → Celaeno → Electra → Hyas → Maia → Merope → Sterope → Taygete →
childGroup	Hyades → Pleiades →
culture	Greek mythology →
defeatedBy	Zeus →
domain	edges of the known world →
gender	male →
guardianOf	Garden of the Hesperides →
mentionedIn	Apollodorus' Bibliotheca → Hesiod's Theogony → Homer's Odyssey →
mythologicalEra	Titanomachy period →
nameEtymology	possibly from Greek "tlao" meaning "to endure" or "to bear" →
oftenDepictedAs	strong man carrying the sky or a celestial sphere →
opponent	Zeus →
parent	Clymene → Iapetus →
punishment	bearing the weight of the heavens →
relatedConcept	atlas (collection of maps) named after him →
residence	Atlas Mountains → western edge of the world →
role	bearer of the heavens →
sibling	Epimetheus → Menoetius → Prometheus →
spouseOrConsort	Pleione →
symbol	globe on shoulders →
transformationCause	Perseus showing him the head of Medusa →
transformedInto	mountain →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aegle → Alcyone → Calypso → Celaeno → Chrysothemis → Hesperia → Hesperides → Hyades → Hyas → Phaesyle → Taygete →	parent
Calypso → Celaeno → Electra → Sterope →	father
Electra → Merope →	childOf
Titans → second-generation Titans →	includes
Asia →	child
Pleione →	childrenWith
Pleiades →	containsStar
Atlas statue →	depicts
Iapetids →	hasMember
Children of Atlas →	hasParent
Heracles cycle →	includesCharacter
Clymene →	motherOf
Asterope →	parentInSomeTraditions
Iapetus →	parentOf
Maia →	relative
Epimetheus →	sibling
Menoetius →	siblingOf
Prometheus →	siblings
Pleione →	spouse
Atlas statue ("Atlas bearing the celestial heavens") →	subjectMatter