In Greek mythology, Atlas was the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere. Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa (Modern-day Morocco and Algeria). Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klyménē (Κλυμένη): Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed.
