The Rebel God's Punishment The Farnese Atlas from atlas mythology Watch Video
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Description: According to Homer’s “Odyssey”, it is the rebel Titan Atlas that “supports the great columns that separate earth and sky” – as a terrible punishment for his attempted attack on Mount Olympus. It was Zeus’s decision: “And Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms […] for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him” (Hesiod, “Theogony”).nnThe Farnese Atlas, currently in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, bows under the incredible,
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