Editing Atlas (mythology) (section)

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<ref name="517–520">[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:507-544 517&ndash;520].
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<ref name="Pseudo-Apollodorus">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.2.3 1.2.3].
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<ref name="Asia">[[Hesiod]],''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:507-544 507]. It is possible that the name ''Asia'' became preferred over Hesiod's ''Clymene'' to avoid confusion with what must be a different [[Oceanid]] named [[Clymene (mother of Phaethon)|Clymene]], who was mother of [[Phaethon]] by [[Helios]] in some accounts.
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<ref name="Mercator">{{harvp|Mercator|Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)|2000}}
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<ref name="LOTN">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/livesnecromance04godwgoog|title=Lives of the Necromancers|author=William Godwin|year=1876|page=[https://archive.org/details/livesnecromance04godwgoog/page/n62 39]|publisher=London, F. J. Mason}}
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<ref name="Daughter">Homer, ''Odyssey'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 1.14], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D44 1.50].  Calypso is sometimes referred to as ''Atlantis'' (Ατλαντίς), which means the daughter of Atlas, see the entry [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2317105 Ατλαντίς] in [[Liddell & Scott]], and also [[Hesiod]], ''Theogony'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:938-962 938].
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<ref name="Diodorus">Referencing [[Diodorus]]:
*"[Atlas] perfected the science of astrology and was the first to publish to mankind the doctrine of the sphere.  and it was for this reason that the idea was held that the entire heavens were supported upon the shoulders of Atlas, the myth darkly hinting in this way at his discovery and description of the sphere." {{harvp|''Bibliotheca historica''|loc=Book III 60.2}}
*"Atlas was so grateful to Heracles for his kindly deed that he not only gladly gave him such assistance as his Labour called for, but he also instructed him quite freely in the knowledge of astrology. For Atlas had worked out the science of astrology to a degree surpassing others and had ingeniously discovered the spherical nature of the stars, and for that reason was generally believed to be bearing the entire firmament upon his shoulders. Similarly in the case of Heracles, when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place." {{harvp|''Bibliotheca historica''|loc=Book IV 27.4–5}}
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<ref name="Eusebius">The "testimony of Eusebius" was "drawn from the most ancient historians" according to Mercator. Eusebius' ''[[Praeparatio evangelica]]'' gives accounts of Atlas that had been translated from the works of [[Phoenicia|ancient Phoenician]] [[Sanchuniathon]], the original sources for which predate the [[Trojan War]] (i.e. 13th century BCE).
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