<Tr> <Th> Parents </Th> <Td> Iapetus and Asia or Clymene </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Roman equivalent </Th> <Td> Atlas </Td> </Tr> <P> In Greek mythology, Atlas (/ ˈætləs /; Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας) was a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity after the Titanomachy . Although associated with various places, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa (modern - day Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia). Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Clymene . He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island Ogygia . According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Atlas stood at the ends of the earth towards the west . </P> <P> According to Robert Graves's The Greek Myths, the Pelasgians believed the creator goddess Eurynome assigned Atlas and Phoebe to govern the moon . </P>

Name of the greek god after whom atlas has been named