Herc-o-Meter: Little Bronze Men

[cathschaffstump]

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Trivia: The answer is Athena. There was some confusion about Diana. Artemis is Diana’s Greek name. Athena is Minerva.

New trivia, which I think is easy. What does Atlas hold up? A little harder: Can you tell me why he does it?

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Herculean wisdom of the day: “Tony scurried across the room to his backpack, and grabbed his cell phone. He snapped a picture of the little bronze man from all sides. Then he reached down to pick the man up.”

You know that the little guy is going to run off, but if you’re smart, like Tony, you’ve got the pictures to prove his existence!

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[sonyamsipes.livejournal.com]

The world! And he was tricked into it... what's his face convinced him to hold it up for a minute so he could go and get a drink, and now he's stuck, forever...

Don't ask me why I know that and not any of the others...?

[mochimonkey.livejournal.com]

Atlas holds up the world as punishment for siding with the Titans against Zeus. The trickery thing comes later with Hercules - the double-trickery, that is. :D

[cathschaffstump.livejournal.com]

You are both right. :) Hercules does trick him. First Atlas and all the titans are defeated by the Olympians, and assigned all sorts of nasty punishments.

Catherine

[frankieb-sq87.livejournal.com]

I thought he held up the sky to keep it from re-joining with the earth. . . He was one of the titans who sided against Zeus and was punished for it, correct?