Hercules (in one version of the myth) holds up the sky. The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus reads: Now Prometheus had told Hercules not to go himself after the apples but to send Atlas, first relieving him of the burden of the sphere; so when he was come to Atlas in the land of ...
123As has long been seen, the two termsprobably refer to performances depicting the youth of Dionysos when, accordingto myth, he was secretly fed and educated on Euboea in order to escape the wrathof Hera.124A reference to the death of Semele in another inscription probablyindicates the same...
Greek myth says he actually held the sky, but, I don’t know, artistic license or whatever. One time, Herakles (aka Hercules) held the sky for him for a while, in exchange for some golden apples. Another time Perseus turned him to stone. Coeus (aka Koios) Titan God of Intellect ...