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Headword:
*)/atlas
Adler number: alpha,4368
Translated headword: Atlas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He of whom myth tells that he holds up earth and heaven.[1]
"And iron shoulders of Atlas."[2]
And a proverb [sc. is attested]: "Atlas the heaven." It omits "you lifted up." In reference to those undertaking great matters and encountering misfortunes.[3]
Greek Original:*)/atlas: o( muqeuo/menos th\n gh=n kai\ to\n ou)rano\n basta/zein. kai\ sidhre/ous *)/atlantos w)/mous. kai\ paroimi/a: *)/atlas to\n ou)rano/n. lei/pei u(pede/cw. e)pi\ tw=n mega/lois pra/gmasin u(poballome/nwn kai\ kakoi=s peripipto/ntwn.
Notes:
Likewise in ps.-
Zonaras.
[1] One of the Titans. Among the historians, Mount Atlas is a mountain in northwest
Africa, cf.
Herodotus (4.184) and
Strabo (17.3.2), evidently a coastal promontory opposite Gibraltar, to the north of today's Atlas Mountain Range (Barrington Atlas map 1a grid C2). For both, see OCD(4) p.200. LSJ entry at web address 1.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.256.1-2 (
Zonas or Antipater); cf.
alpha 4390 and
sigma 376. On this epigram, a tribute to a champion boxer, see Gow and Page vol. I (80-81), vol. II (106-107), and another extract at
tau 316. On the epigram's attribution, see
alpha 4390 note.
[3] cf.
Diogenianus 2.67 and similarly in other paroemiographers.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; daily life; geography; imagery; mythology; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 November 2001@00:32:34.
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