Mar 11, 2023 · 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.

Sep 18, 2023 · 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.

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Sep 19, 2023 · The Hesperides were goddesses or nymphs associated with the evening and the West. They guarded the golden apples of Hera, located in the famous Garden of the Hesperides in the Far West.

Jan 6, 2023 · 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.

Nov 29, 2022 · 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 …

Mar 23, 2023 · Ladon was a formidable serpent or dragon, tasked with guarding the golden apples hidden in the Garden of the Hesperides. When Heracles came to steal the apples for his eleventh labor, he first had to find a way around the imposing Ladon.

Mar 10, 2023 · The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.

Mar 10, 2023 · Iapetus was one of the original Greek Titans who fought (unsuccessfully) against the Olympians in the Titanomachy. He fathered several well-known mythological figures, including Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.

Nov 29, 2022 · Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, was a Greek Titan, known for being as slow-witted as Prometheus was quick. Neglecting his wiser brother’s warnings, Epimetheus accepted Pandora as his bride and thus inadvertently helped unleash all …