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[[File: Atlas one.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Farense Atlas. 2nd century AD]]

Atlas was one of the older gods of Greece, known as the Titans. They had come to dominate the world and the cosmos after Cronos had usurped his father's throne as King of the Gods. The myth of Atlas is widely believed to have originated before the Hellenes or Greek made their home in Greece. Ancient sources report that he was originally a deity in the Pelasgian Pantheon, these were the original inhabitants of what is modern Greece. There is no one version of the birth of Atlas, but most agree that he was the son of the Titan Iapetus and his wife Clymeme, although some accounts claim that it was the Goddess Asia. Iapetus was the son of Uranus and Gaia and was one of the leading Titans. Atlas had many brothers and the best known of them was Prometheus. In most of the early accounts of his myth, he was married to Pleoine, a nymph. In nearly every account Atlas is portrayed as gigantic and strong, big even for a Titan. Despite his strength, the god was incredibly wise and intelligent. According to Homer ‘he was deep minded’ this was an epitaph that indicated he was far-seeing and possessed great knowledge<ref>Homer, Odyssey 4. 5</ref>. He and his wife had numerous children the best known, were the nymphs Hyades, Hyas, and the Pleiades. In some accounts, Atlas fathered the nymph Calypso, who is a character in the Odyssey.

==Atlas and the war of the gods==