Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.741 Atlas

  Titan bearing the sky, here the teacher of the bard Iopas in astronomy.

• The Aeneid §4.247 Atlas

  The Titan who props the sky on his summit; the mountain by which Mercury alights, grandsire of his mother Maia.

• The Aeneid §6.796 Atlas

  The Titan who turns the star-set axis of heaven on his shoulder, at the world's edge.

• The Aeneid §8.136 Atlas

  The Titan who bears the heavens on his shoulders; common ancestor of Dardanus and of Mercury (hence of Evander).