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(cla . myth.). (1) One of the Titans, brother of me the us and Epimetheus, led the war against the gods, for which he was condemned by Zeus to bear the heavens upon his shoulders; father of the Hesperides, Pleiades, and Hyades. Another legend makes Atlas a king who refused shelter to Perseus; the lattor turned him into /a@ mountain by exposing to his view the head of Medusa. (2) Name given by Mercat or to a collection of maps.