Telamon

A surname of Atlas, describing him as the sufferer or bearer of heaven, from τλάω, "suffer, undergo."

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References

Sources

  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid i, 741; iv, 246.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.