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atlantes [Latin plural of Atlas ], sculptured male figures serving as supports of entablatures, in place of a column or pier. The earliest (c.480-460 BC) and most important example from antiquity is in the Greek temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily. The baroque architecture of the 17th cent. made considerable use of atlantes, as did the classical revival in the early 19th cent. Female supporting figures are called caryatids.

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atlantes stone carvings of male figures, used as columns to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building; the word is the plural form of Greek atlas (see Atlas).

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Atlantic XV. — L. Atlanticus — Gr. Atlantikós, f. Átlās, Atlant- name of (i) the Titan who was supposed to hold up the pillars of the universe, and (ii) the mountain in Libya which was held to support the heavens, whence the application of the adj. to the ocean west of Africa.

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