The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the " Sea of Atlas ".

In 1983 it was officially named after Atlas of Greek mythology, because it " holds the rings on its shoulders " like the Titan Atlas held the sky up above the Earth.

In Greek mythology, Atlas (; ) was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere.

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* However, the more widely known Atlas is a figure from Greek mythology.

It is named for the Atlas of Greek mythology, because it supports the globe of the head.

The nine brightest stars of the Pleiades are named for the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology: Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, and Alcyone, along with their parents Atlas and Pleione.

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides () are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean.

Asia in Greek mythology was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.

In Greek mythology, Dardanus ( Greek: Δάρδανος ) was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad.

In Greek mythology, Hesperius (" evening ") was ( according to one account ) the mother of the Hesperides by Atlas.

In Greek mythology, the Hyades were the five daughters of Atlas and half-sisters to the Pleiades.

In Greek mythology, Iapetus (), also Iapetos or Japetus (), was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father ( by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia ) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race.

Electra House, 84 Moorgate, built by John Belcher ( architect ) | John Belcher in 1902, topped by a sculpture of young Atlas ( mythology ) | Atlas es supporting a zodiacal globe by F. W.

Hyas, in Greek mythology, was a son of the Titan Atlas by Aethra ( one of the Oceanids ).

The Iapetus Ocean was therefore named for the titan Iapetus, who in Greek mythology was the father of Atlas, after whom the Atlantic Ocean was named.

This nautilus shell was used to fashion this drinking cup depicting Atlas, a legendary titan of Greco-Roman mythology.

The Titan Atlas ( mythology ) | Atlas, supporting a Buddhist monument, Hadda, Afghanistan | Hadda.

* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon

* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster

* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine

* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear

* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species

* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher

* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species

* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo

* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

The first Atlas ICBM's are now operational, the first two Polaris submarines are expected to be operational this calendar year, and the first Titan ICBM's next year.

In the coming fiscal year additional quantities of Atlas, Titan, and Polaris missiles also will be procured.

Survivability of our strategic forces ( Polaris, mobile and hardened Minuteman, hardened Atlas and Titan, and airborne Skybolt ) means that it will take some time, perhaps weeks, to destroy a strategic force.

** Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Titan, " Atlas "

Other Autocodes were developed for the Titan ( computer ) ( a prototype Atlas 2 ) at Cambridge and the Ferranti Mercury.

In the mid-1960s, a successor to the EDSAC 2 was planned, but the move was instead made to the Titan, a prototype Atlas 2 — the latter having been developed from the Atlas Computer of the University of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey.

1965 graph of USAF Atlas and Titan ICBM launches, cumulative by month with failures highlighted ( pink ).

Examples include R-7, Atlas, Redstone, Titan, and Proton, which was derived from the earlier ICBMs but never deployed as an ICBM.

The missiles of the day were all required to be loaded with their fuels prior to launch ( they all used nonstorable propellants ); and they could only be launched from above ground ( after long pre-launch checkouts ) launch pads, making them vulnerable to attack-the first ICBMs, Atlas 1 and Titan 1 were of this type.

* Titan ( computer ), prototype Atlas 2 computer developed in the early 1960s

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klyménē ( Κλυμένη ):

In contexts where a Titan and a Titaness are assigned each of the seven planetary powers, Atlas is paired with Phoebe and governs the moon.

The first publisher to associate the Titan Atlas with a group of maps was Lafreri, on the title-page to " Tavole Moderne Di Geografia De La Maggior Parte Del Mondo Di Diversi Autori ...".

The term atlantes is the Latin plural of the name Atlas – the Titan who was forced to hold the sky on his shoulders for eternity.