Atlas (mitholojia)

^{Kwa matumizi tofauti ya jina hili tazama Atlas (maana)}

Atlas akibeba anga (sanamu ya Kiroma, karne ya pili BK)

Atlas (kutoka Kigiriki: Ἄτλας atlas) alikuwa mungu mmojawapo katika dini ya Ugiriki ya Kale aliyehesabiwa katika nasaba ya miungu ya Watitani.

Katika masimulizi ya Wagiriki alikuwa mwana wa Iapetos na Asia, binti Okeanos. Baada ya vita ya Watitani dhidi ya miungu Waolimpo Atlas alipewa adhabu ya kusimama kwenye kona ya magharibi ya Dunia na kumbeba Urano, yaani anga. Hivyo Zeu alitaka kuzuia Urano (anga) kukutana tena na Gaia (Dunia, ardhi) na kuzaa.

Ilhali Mlango wa Gibraltar (kati ya Afrika Kaskazini na Ulaya) ulikuwa mwisho wa Dunia iliyojulikana na Wagiriki wa Kale, mitholojia ya Atlas iliunganishwa na milima mirefu kaskazini mwa Moroko ya leo. Milima hiyo hadi leo huitwa milima ya Atlas.

Tangu kuunganishwa na Afrika ya Kaskazini-Magharibi, Atlas aliendelea katika masimulizi mengine ya Waroma wa Kale kuwa mfalme wa Mauretania aliyesifiwa kwa elimu na hekima yake.

Mwanajiografia Gerardus Mercator alikusanya ramani nyingi katika kitabu kimoja akaita mkusanyo huo kwa heshima ya huyo mfalme "Atlas" na tangu hapo jina la atlasi linapatikana hadi leo kwa kitabu cha ramani.

Marejeo

• (1994) "Atlas, la genèse d'un titre", Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas Europae. Antwerp: Bibliothèque des Amis du Fonds Mercator, 15–29. 
• (1933–67) Diodorus of Sicily : The Library of History. 12 Vols., 2004, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 
• (1993) Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-4410-2. OCLC 917033766. 
• (2010) The Classical Tradition, 2013, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-07227-5. OCLC 957010841. 
• (2012) The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954556-8. OCLC 799019502. 
• Keuning, J. (1947). "The History of an Atlas: Mercator. Hondius". Imago Mundi 4 (1): 37–62.

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• (1833) A Classical Dictionary. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill [etc.]. OCLC 81170896. 
• (2008) Perseus, 1st, London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-42724-1. OCLC 163604137. 
• (2013) Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955732-5. OCLC 799069191. 
• (2015) The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-28879-6. OCLC 930260324. 
• (2000) Atlas sive Cosmographicæ Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura: Duisburg, 1595. Oakland, CA: Octavo. ISBN 978-1-891788-26-0. OCLC 48878698. 
• Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, London: Penguin, 1955; Baltimore: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-001026-2
• Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hesiod; Works and Days, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Atlas"

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