The New Student's Reference Work/Atlas (mythology)

At'las, in Greek fable, the son of a Titan and father of the Pleiades and Hyades. As leader of the Titans he tried to storm the heavens, and for this crime was condemned by Zeus to bear the vault of Heaven on his head and hands, standing in the neighborhood of the Hesperides at the western end of the earth on the mountains in the northwest of Africa, still called by his name.