A common fallacy states that Atlas was a Titan that was forced to carry the weight of the Earth on his shoulders. This is a misconception that snowballed from olden times until today and was probably born from how the so-called Farnese Atlas, a second-century Roman sculpture, looked like to most people.
Technically a marble copy of a Hellenistic statue, the Farnese Atlas depicts the mythological figure kneeling with a globe on his back. ... (continue reading >>)
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A common fallacy states that Atlas was a Titan that was forced to carry the weight of the Earth on his shoulders. This is a misconception that snowballed from olden times until today and was probably born from how the so-called Farnese Atlas, a second-century Roman sculpture, looked like to most people.
Technically a marble copy of a Hellenistic statue, the Farnese Atlas depicts the mythological figure kneeling with a globe on his back. ... (continue reading >>)
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