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atlantes (ătlăn`tēz) [Latin plural of Atlas Atlas (ăt`ləs), in Greek mythology, a Titan ; son of Iapetus and Clymene and the brother of Prometheus.
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], sculptured male figures serving as supports of entablatures, in place of a column or pier. The earliest (c.480–460 B.C.) and most important example from antiquity is in the Greek temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily. The baroque architecture of the 17th cent. made considerable use of atlantes, as did the classical revival in the early 19th cent. Female supporting figures are called caryatids.

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