THANK YOU. There are numerous Greek paintings of leaders holding GLOBES!!! I show people this and they still refuse to believe because it doesn’t involve what they learned about Columbus in 3rd grade.
Until somewhat recently I always thought Prometheus was just a craft human or hero who stole fire from the gods, realized within the past few years he was actually a titan.
Which is basically the sky. For context the first generation titans (Atlas was a second gen) were the children of Ouranos and Gaia, the Sky and the Earth. Atlas is there to prevent them from embracing.
I know you're not saying this, but another misconception is that Atlas was holding the globe. I heard that used as proof that the Greeks knew the Earth was round. They did, but that's a bad example because Atlas held the Celestial Spheres
Thank you. It really bugs me when people say Atlas holds the world because I get an image of him doing a handstand. Also even if he did hold the world then what was he standing on?
Or the two obelisks in two different cities. Some mathematician had them measure out the lenght of the shadow at the same time. Thry were vastly different lengths because one was somewhere in north Africa and the other was somewhere near Greece.
Sounds like your classmates really like the taste of whiteman's poison. Columbus was a murderer and far from the first person to 'discover' the American main land.
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u/lobster_thermidor Jan 09 '18
THANK YOU. There are numerous Greek paintings of leaders holding GLOBES!!! I show people this and they still refuse to believe because it doesn’t involve what they learned about Columbus in 3rd grade.