atlas

     

An atlas is a collection of maps, traitionally bound into book form, but also found in multimedia formats. As well as geographic features and political boundaries, many often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics.

Trivia about atlas

  • Fittingly, the name of this Titan may be derived from a word meaning "to bear" or "to support"
  • This term for a collection of maps arose because early ones pictured the titan of that name
  • Prometheus' brother, you may know the fact he was cursed to bear the sky upon his back
  • This brother of Prometheus had the whole world on his shoulders
  • This Titan who held up the heavens was the father of the Pleiades
  • He was condemned to support the heavens after supporting Cronus' war against the Olympians
  • He led the Titans into battle against the gods & had to shoulder the responsibility
  • A book of maps, or an African mountain range you can find in it
  • Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator was the 1st to call a book of maps this
  • His home was a mountain chain in Africa that supported the heavens
  • This Titan, whose name refers to a type of book, supported the sky on his shoulders, not the Earth
  • In the title of an Ayn Rand novel, this mythological figure "Shrugged"
  • The ancient statue seen here is of this weary Greek god
  • This man who held up the heavens lent his name to a sculptural male figure used as a supporting column
  • Hercules literally took the weight of the world off his shoulders when he needed help with some golden apples
  • This Titan made the mistake of waging war against Zeus, so he was doomed to hold the sky on his shoulders
  • In the original myth, this Titan held up the sky, not the earth, on his shoulders
  • A big supporter of the heavens, he was the son of the Titan Iapetus
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives a skeleton a pain in the neck.) Because the first cervical vertebra supports the head, it's called this, like a certain mythical Titan