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| | Greek Mythology: ATLAS Titan God of Astronomy, Endurance, Daring, Constellation Hercules |
 | | The Titan was subsequently placed in the heavens as the Constellation Hercules (known to the Greeks as the Kneeler), and the Drakon Hesperios, his familiar or tormentor, as the adjacent star-group Draco. |
 | | Thus Atlas is described as the leader of the Titans in their contest with Zeus, and, being conquered, he was condemned to the labour of bearing heaven on his head and hands. |
 | | Atlas is said to have been the father of the Pleiades by Pleione or by Hesperis, of the Hyades and Hesperides by Aethra, and of Oenomaus and Maea by Sterope. |
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