atlantes in English

noun

1

one of the Titans, who was punished for his part in their revolt against Zeus by being made to support the heavens. He became identified with the Atlas Mountains.

noun

1

a book of maps or charts.

I looked in the atlas to find a map of Italy

2

the topmost vertebra of the backbone, articulating with the occipital bone of the skull.

There is a well-developed atlas and the caudal vertebrae can be distinguished from the trunk vertebrae by the presence of hemal arches.

3

a stone carving of a male figure, used as a column to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.

Among its wealth of neoclassical details are the legs in the shape of inverted obelisks, the torsos of draped and winged caryatids and atlantes , and the allegorical figure (possibly Summer).

noun

telamon

Use "atlantes" in a sentence

1. Caryatid (n.) "carved, robed female figure used as a column," 1560s, from French cariatide, from Latin Caryatides, from Greek Karyatides (singular Karyatis) "priestesses of Artemis at Caryae" (Greek Karyai), a town in Laconia where dance festivals were held in Artemis' temple.Male figures in a like situation are Atlantes, plural of Atlas.Related: Caryatic.