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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`Proceeding
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`Plaintiff
`Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
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`BARTH XAVIER DEROSA
`BELZER PC
`2905 BULL STREET
`SAVANNAH, GA 31405
`UNITED STATES
`Primary Email: bderosa@belzerlaw.com
`Secondary Email(s): rwomack@belzerlaw.com, paralegal@belzerlaw.com
`202-408-5955
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`Barth Xavier deRosa
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`bderosa@belzerlaw.com, rwomack@belzerlaw.com, paralegal@belzerlaw.com
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`/barth xavier derosa/
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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`Opposer,
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`Opposition No. 91264021
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`DMA HOLDINGS INC.
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`Applicant.
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`DECLARATION OF BARTH X. DE ROSA
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`I, Barth X. deRosa, declare and state as follows:
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`wholly owned subsidiary, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
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`2. In my capacity in the performance of my duties, I can verify the authenticity of the
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`materials cited herein and in Opposer’s Memorandum in Opposition to Applicant’s Motion for
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`Summary Judgment. Accordingly, each of the following Exhibits attached to this declaration are
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`proffered not for the truth of the matter, but for what they show.
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`3. Exhibit 1 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots of the definition
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`and origin for the term ATLAS as derived from https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com > atlas
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`and as printed on April 5, 2021.
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`4. Exhibit 2 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of web pages relating to the
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`origin of the term ATLAS as derived from https://www.theoi.com and as printed on April 5, 2021.
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`5. Exhibit 3 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots as derived from
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`www.vwliftkits.com and as printed on April 5, 2021.
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`6. Exhibit 4 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots as derived from
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`www.dma-sales.com and as printed on April 5, 2021 relating to the various Volkswagen models
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`to which Applicant’s “lifts” are applicable.
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`7. Exhibit 5 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots as derived from
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`www.thormotorcoach.com/aria/ and as printed on April 5, 2021
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`8. Exhibit 6 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots as derived from
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`www.searsseating.com and as printed on April 5, 2021.
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`9. Exhibit 7 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots as derived from
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`www.atlascarwash.com and as printed on April 5, 2021.
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`10. Exhibit 8 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of printouts of the search
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`“Volkswagen Atlas” as performed on the Google Search Engine under the “All” tab on March 27,
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`2021, and as the first ten pages of that search was printed on March 27, 2021.
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`11. Exhibit 9 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of printouts of the search
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`“Volkswagen Atlas” as performed on the Google Search Engine under the “Video” tab on March
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`27, 2021, and as the first ten pages of that search was printed on March 27, 2021,
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`12. Exhibit 10 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of printouts of the search
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`“Volkswagen Atlas” as performed on the Google Search Engine under the “News” tab on March
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`27, 2021, and as the first ten pages of the search was printed on March 27, 2021.
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`13. Exhibit 11 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of screen shots from the
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`website www.advanceautoparts.com and as printed on April 5, 2021.
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`14. Exhibit 12 attached herewith, are true and correct copies of webpages relating to
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`reviews about the Volkswagen ATLAS from each of the following web sites, and screen shots of
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`Exhibit 12(d), all of which were printed on April 5, 2021:
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`a. https://www.cars.com/articles/2021-family-car-of-the-year-431583/
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`b. https://www.cars.com/awards/2020/family-car-of-the-year/
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`c. https://www.wardsauto.com/2020-10-best-ux/winner-volkswagen-atlas-cross-sport-ux-champ
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`d.https://www.parents.com/parenting/money/car-buying/best-family-cars/
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`e. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/travel-products/car-reviews/g5081/new-car-awards-2018/
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`f. https://media.vw.com/en-us/releases/982
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`i. https://www.media.vw.com/en-us/releases/922/
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`j. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/volkswagen-atlas-vs-honda-pilot-2018
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`I hereby declare that all statements made herein on my own knowledge are true and that all
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`statements made information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements
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`were made with knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable b fine
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`or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States code.
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`Endures, Dares (atlaé)
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`ATLAS was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He
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`personified the quality of endurance (atlas).
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`defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his
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`sky asunder. Atlas was also the god who instructed
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`causing the stars to revolve.
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`Herakles (Heracles) encountered the Titan during his
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`his shoulders while Atlas fetched the apples. The hero
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`[1. 2] [Aflfimmtanlapetgshtml) & A§|A (TItgnisglymmlegehtm ) (Apoliodorus 1.8)
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`[1.3] lAPETO§ (fitsnlapetoshtml) (Ovid Metamorphoses 4.627)
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`OFFSPRING
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`[1.1] IHLELEIADESLLMLQMLMmphaLElejadesflLmD (Hesiod Works & Days 383, Hesiod Astronomy Frag 1,
`Simonides Frag 555, Aeschyius Frag 172, Ovid Metamorphoses 6.169, Nonnus Dionysiaca 3.349)
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`[1.2] THE PLEIADE§ (flymphflymphaiPIt-ziades,html) (by Pleione (fiymgfleflymphepleionemmn) (Apoiiodorus
`3.110, Ovid Fasti 5.79)
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`[1.3] THE PLEIADE§ (AymaheflymphaiPleiadeshtml), THE HYADE§ (fiymmmgpnajflyadgimml), mg
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`(Hygshtml) (by Pleigne (Aymphjflymphei’leionehtml) or Aethra (Aympfieflymghemeignemmm (Hyginus
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`Fabulae 192, Hyginus Astronomica 2.21. Ovideasti'5.164)
`[2.1] KALYPSQ (.1_.NymphelNympheKalypsghtm)(Homer Odyssey 1.52, Apoiiodorus E7. 23)
`[4.1] l—DONE @ymLheiNympheDionemml) (Hyginus Fabuiae 83. Ovid Metamorphoses 6.172)
`[5.1] IHEJjEsEEBIoEslHespeLidesmmi) (by Hessedsuzlesoetideshtmm (Diodorus Sicufuis 4-26. 2)
`[5.2] HEHESEEBLQESJHesmLidssmmI) {Hyginus Astronomica 23)
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`ENCYCLOPEDIA
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`ATLAS (Atlas). according to Hesiod (Theog. 507, &c.). a son of Japetus and Clymene. and a brother of Menoetius,
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`Prometheus, and Epimetheus; according to Apollodorus (i. 2. § 3), his mother‘s name was Asia: and, according to
`Hyginus (Fab. Praef.). he was a son of Aether and Gaea. For other accounts see Diod. iii. 60, iv. 27; Flat. Critias, p.
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`114; Serv. ad Aen. iv. 24?. According to the description of the Homeric poems, Atlas knows the depth of all the sea,
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`and bears the long columns which keep asunder. or carry all around (amphis echousi). earth and heaven. (Od. i. 52.)
`Hesiod only says. that he bore heaven with his head and hands. (Comp. Aeschyl. Prom. 34?, &c.; Paus. v. 18. § 1,
`11. § 2.) In these passages Atlas is described either as bearing heaven alone, or as bearing both heaven and earth;
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`and several modern scholars have been engaged in investigating which of the two notions was the original one.
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`Much depends upon the meaning of the Homeric expression amphis echousi; if the signification is "the columns
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`which keep asunder heaven and earth." the columns (mountains) must be conceived as being somewhere in the
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`middle of the earth's surface; but if they mean "bear or support all around." they must be regarded as forming the
`circumference of the earth, upon which the vault of heaven rests apparently. In either case, the meaning of keeping
`asunder is implied. In the Homeric description of Atlas, the idea of his being a superhuman or divine being, with a
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`personal existence, seems to be blended with the idea of a mountain. The idea of heaven-bearing Atlas is, according
`to Letronne, a mere personification of a cosmographic notion, which arose from the views entertained by the ancients
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`respecting the nature of heaven and its relation to the earth; and such a personification, when once established, was
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`further developed and easily connected with other myths, such as that of the Titans. Thus Atlas is described as the
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`leader of the Titans in their contest with Zeus, and, being conquered, he was condemned to the labour of bearing
`heaven on his head and hands. (Hesiod, ic.; Hygin. Fab. 150.) Still later traditions distort the original idea still more,
`by putting rationalistic interpretations upon it, and make Atlas a man who was metamorphosed into a mountain. Thus
`Ovid (Met. iv. 630,&c., comp. ii. 296) relates, that Perseus came to him and asked for shelter, which he was refused.
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`whereupon Perseus, by means of the head of Medusa, changed him into mount Atlas, on which rested heaven with
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`all its stars. Others go still further, and represent Atlas as a powerful king, who possessed great knowledge of the
`courses of the stars, and who was the first who taught men that heaven had the form of a globe. Hence the
`expression that heaven rested on his shoulders was regarded as a mere figurative mode of speaking. (Diod. iii. 60, iv.
`27; Paus. ix. 20. § 3; Serv. ad Aen. i. 745; Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 873.) At first, the story of Atlas referred to one mountain
`only, which was believed to exist on the extreme boundary of the earth; but, as geographical knowledge extended,
`the name of Atlas was transferred to other places, and thus we read of a Mauritanian, Italian, Arcadian, and even of a
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`Caucasian, Attas. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 1
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`; Dionys. i. 61; Serv. ad Aen. viii. 134.) The common opinion, however, was,
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`that the heaven-bearing Atlas was in the north-western part of Africa, and the range of mountains in that part of the
`world bears the name of Atlas down to this day. Atlas is said to have been the father of the Pleiades by Pleione or by
`Hesperis, of the Hyades and Hesperides by Aethra, and of Oenomaus and Maea by Sterope. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 1;
`Diod. iv. 27; Serv. ad Aen. viii. 130.) Dione and Calypso, and Hyas and Hesperus, are likewise called his children.
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`(Horn. Od. vii. 245; Hygin. Feb. 83.) Atlas was painted by Panaenus on the parapet surrounding the statue of the
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`Olympian Zeus (Paus. v. 11. § 2); on the chest of Cypselus he was seen carrying heaven and holding in his hands
`the golden apples of the Hesperides; and on the throne of Apollo at Amyclae he was likewise represented. (Paus. v.
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`18. § 1,
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`iii. 18. § 7.)
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`TE'LAMON (Telamén). A surname of Atlas, describing him as the sufferer or bearer of heaven, from tied. (Serv. ad
`Aen. i. 741, iv. 246.)
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`Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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`CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
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`PARENTAGE 0F ATLAS
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`Hesiod, Theogony 507 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek
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`epic 08th or 07th 8.0.) :
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`"Now lapetos (lapetus) took to wife the neat-ankled maid
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`Klymene (Clymene), daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus),
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`and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a
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`stout—hearted son, Atlas; also she bare very glorious
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`Menoitios (Menoetius) and clever Prometheus, full of
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`various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus."
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`"From Aether and Terra [were born various abstractions]
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`Pseudo-Apoiiodorus, Bibiiotheca 1. 8 (trans. Aldrich)
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`(Greek mythographer 02nd AD.) .'
`"The Titanes (Titans) had children .
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`. Atlas who holds
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`the sky on his shoulders, Prometheus, Epimetheus. and
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`Menoitios (Menoetius) .
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`. were all sons of lapetos
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`(lapetus) and Asia."
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`Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman
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`mythographer 02nd AD.) .'
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`[From Caelum (Ouranos) and Terra (Gala) were born ?]
`Oceanus Themis Tanams Pontus. the Titanes .
`Briareus, Gyes, Steropes, Atias, Hyperion, and Polus
`[Koios (Coeus)], Saturnus [Kronos (Cronus)], Ops
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`[Rhea]. Moneta [Mnemosyne]. Dione."
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`[N.B. Hyginus' Preface survives only in summary. The Titanes should be listed as children of Ouranos (Caelum) and
`Gala (Terra) not Aither and Gaia. but the notation to this effect seems to have been lost in the transcription]
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`Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer 02nd AD.) :
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`"From lapetus and Clymene [were born] : Atlas, Epimetheus. Prometheus.“
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`ATLAS & THE WAR OF THE TITANS
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`Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabuiae 150 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer 02nd AD.) :
`"After Juno [Hera] saw that Epaphus, born of a concubine. ruled such a great kingdom, she saw to it that he should
`be killed while hunting, and encouraged the Titanes (Titans) to drive Jove [Zeus] from the kingdom and restore it to
`Saturn [Kronos]. When they tried to mount to heaven, Jove with the help of Minerva [Athena], Apollo, and Diana
`[Artemis]. cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even
`now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders."
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`ATLAS BEARER OF THE HEAVENS
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`Homer, Odyssey 1. 52 ff (trans. Shewring) {Greek epic
`08th so.) .-
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`"Atlas the baleful (oloophron); he knows the depths of all
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`the seas. and he, no other. guards (or holds) the tall
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`pillars that keep the sky and earth apart."
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`Hesiod, Theogony 507 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek
`epic C8th or 07th B.C.) :
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`"Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven
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`with unwearying head and arms. standing at the borders
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`of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides (Ladies
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`of the West); for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him."
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`Hesiod. Theogony 744 ff :
`"There [at the sources and ends of earth. sea and
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`underworld] stands the awful home of murky Nyx (Night)
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`wrapped in dark ciouds. In front of it the son of lapetos
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`(Iapetus) [Atlas] stands immovably upholding the wide
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`heaven upon his head and unwearying hands. where
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`Nyx (Night) and Hemera (Day) draw near and greet one
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`another as they pass the great threshold of bronze.“
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`Pindar, Pythian Ode 4. 290 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek
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`lyric 05th BC.) .'
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`"Does not even now great Atlas struggle to bear up the
`weight of heaven. far from his fathers' land and his
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`possessions? But almighty Zeus set free the Titanes
`(Titans) for as time passes and the breeze abates, the
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`(trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric ii) (Greek lyric 06th to
`5m ac).-
`"Simonides represents him [Atlas] as holding the sky on
`his shoulders.“
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`Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound 349 ff (trans. Weir Smyth) (hflmmflmammmmummgm
`(Greek tragedy 05m 8. C.) :
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`I am distressed by the fate of my brother Atlas, who, towards the west, stands bearing on his
`"Prometheus :
`shoulders the pillar of heaven and earth, a burden not easy for his arms to grasp."
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`Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 407 ff :
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`"[Okeanos (Oceanus) addresses the chained Titan Prometheus :] Now the whole earth cries aloud in lamentatlon .
`lament the greatness of the glory of your time-hallowed honor, the honor that was yours and your brother's [Atlas'] .
`One other Titan god before this I have seen in distress, enthralled in torment by adamantine bonds--Atlas, pre-
`eminent in mighty strength, who moans as he supports the vault of heaven on his back."
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`Aeschylus, Fragment 172 (from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11. 80. 491A) :
`"And they who bear the name of Atlas' daughters seven [the Pleiades] oft bewailed their sire's supremest labour of
`sustaining heaven."
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`Lycophron, Alexandra 877 (trans. Mair) (Greek poet 03rd 8.0.) :
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`"The desolate dwelling place of Atlas [i.e. Libyal."
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`Quintus Smymaeus, Fall of Troy 11. 415 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic 04th AD.) :
`"Olympian Zeus himself from heaven in wrath smote down the insolent bands of Gigantes (Giants) grim, and shook
`the boundless earth, Tethys and Okeanos (Oceanus), and the heavens, when reeled the knees of Atlas neath the
`rush of Zeus."
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`Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 150 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer (2an AD.) :
`"On Atlas .
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`. he [Zeus] put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders."
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`Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 296 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic Clst 8.0. to Gist/51.0.) :
`"[When Phaethon driving the chariot of the sun set the earth aflame :] Even Atlas fails, his shoulders scarce sustain
`the flaming sky."
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`Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 172:
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`"That great giant, Atlas. whose shoulders bear the circling sky."
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`Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 198 :
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`”This neck [of Herakles (Heracles)] sustained the sky [in place of Atlas]."
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`Virgil, Aeneid 8. 134 ff (trans. Day-Lewis) {Roman epic 01518.0.) :
`"Mighty Atlas who holds aloft on his shoulders the heavenly firmament .
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`. Atlas who props the starry sky."
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`Propertius. Elegies 3. 22 (trans. Gould) (Roman elegy Clst B. C.) :
`"You behold Atlas supporting the whole of heaven."
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`Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2. 616 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic Ctst AD.) .'
`"These lands .
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`. lashed by the ocean, Neptunus' [Poseidon's] trident, and the slow workings of time the enemy
`sundered of yore, even as they did the shores of Sicily and Libya. when Janus [whose home was Italy] and Atlas, lord
`of the sunset mountains [in North Africa], were struck aghast at the crash."
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`Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5. 408 ff :
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`“[Depicted on the walls of the palace of Aeetes :] There iron Atlas stands in Oceanus, the wave swelling and breaking
`on his knees; but the god himself [Helios the Sun] on high hurries his shining steeds across the old man's body. and
`spreads light about the curving sky; behind with smaller wheel follows his sister [Selene the Moon] and the crowded
`Pleiades and the fires whose tresses are wet with dripping rain [the Hyades]."
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`Statius, Thebaid 1. 97 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic Clst AD.) .'
`"Towering Atlas shuddered and shifted the weight of heaven upon his trembling shoulders."
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`Statius. Thebaid 8. 315 ff:
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`"With no effort carriest thyself [Gaia. Earth] star-bearing Atlas who staggers under the weight of the celestial realm."
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`Nonnus. Dionysiaca 2. 259 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic 05th AD.) :
`"[fyphoeus tells Zeus what he intends to do when he has seized the throne of heaven :] 'Break the bar of Olympos
`(Olympus), self-turning. divine! Drag down to earth the heavenly pillar. let Atlas be shaken and flee away. let him
`throw down the starry vault of Olympos and fear no more its circling course-for I will not permit a son of Earth to be
`bowed down with chafed shoulders. while he underprops the revolving compulsion of the sky! No. let him leave his
`endless burden to the other gods, and battle against the Blessed Ones! Let him break off rocks. and volley with those
`hard shots the starry vault which he once carried! .
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`. Kronion (Cronion) [Zeus] also shall lift the Spinning heavens of
`Atlas. and bear the load on weary shoulders.m
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`Nonnus. Dionysiaca 3. 349 ff:
`"And away by the boundary of Libya my [the Pleiad Elektra's] father still suffers hardship. old Atlas with chafing
`shoulders bowed. upholding the seven-zoned vault of the sky [seven-zoned. i.e. from the sun. moon, planets and
`fixed stars]."
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`Nonnus. Dionysiaca 13. 333 ff :
`"By the Tritonian Lake [in Libya], Kadmos (Cadmus) the wanderer lay with rosycheek Harmonia [on their wedding
`night]. and the Nymphai (Nymphs) Hesperides made a song for them .
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`. Her mother's father the stooping Libyan
`Atlas [Harmonia's stepmother was Elektra (Electra) daughter of Atlas] awoke a tune of the heavenly harp to join the
`revels, and with tripping foot he twirled the heavens round like a ball. while he sang a stave of harmony himself not
`far away."
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`Nonnus, Dionysiaca 31. 103 ff