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atlantes

(ătlăn`tēz) [Latin plural of AtlasAtlas
, in Greek mythology, a Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene and the brother of Prometheus. When the Titans were defeated, Atlas was condemned to hold the sky on his shoulders for all eternity—a mythical explanation of why the sky does not fall.
..... Click the link for more information. ], 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.

atlas, pl. atlantes

atlas

A figure (or figures) of a man used in place of a column to support an entablature; also called a telamon.

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The love between man and statue, depicted in the same volume (and in somewhat different form in his Awakening to the Great Sleep War), comes about after the narrator, the man, has almost overdosed on sleeping tablets in his eagerness to show the caryatids and atlantes what sleep is, because they have no concept of such a thing.

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De la a evoquer quelques equipages Atlantes echoues en Egypte, apres la disparition de l'Atlantide, il n'y a qu'un pas que certains ont franchi.

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Cesari admired Michelangelo and imitated his heroic muscular figures, although Cesari's Atlantes are generally more thickset.

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Lo mismo se dice de los etiopes y de los atlantes. Leon el Africano, bajo Leon X, sostuvo que en el reino de Bornou no hay ningun vestigio de religion.

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Messala pays homage to the boy as a representative of Bacchus, and Wallace finishes the chapter with "There was a shout that set the floor to quaking, and the grim Atlantes to dancing, and the orgies began" (236).