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The titan condemned to hold up the sky, now reduced to holding open your books.
means A bound collection of maps, charts, or illustrative plates, often covering a region, the world, or a body of knowledge.
from From Atlas, the Titan of Greek myth condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders. The book sense comes from the 16th-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who put an image of Atlas on the title page of his collected maps and named the whole work after him; the name stuck, and every road-map binder since owes its title to a punished god. The Greek name itself is usually traced to a root meaning 'to bear' or 'endure' — fittingly, the one who carries the load.
- original punishment
- Held the heavens, not Earth, as the myth goes
- map naming
- Mercator named map books after him in 1595
- top vertebra
- The bone holding your skull bears his name
- turned to stone
- Medusa's head froze him into Africa's Atlas Mountains
atlas mountains — mountain range spanning morocco, algeria, and tunisia in north africa
rand mcnally commercial atlas — best-selling american road atlas first published in 1876