memestoanend@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 2 days agowhat we've clearly forgottenlemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1684arrow-down111
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minus-squareMuffilinkfedilinkarrow-up3·16 hours agoI never thought about it until now, but isn’t this classic visualisation of Atlas carrying the world kind of wrong? He held up the sky and not the entire earth, right?
minus-squarejve@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoHuh. TIL that in the classical depictions, he’s holding up celestial spheres
I never thought about it until now, but isn’t this classic visualisation of Atlas carrying the world kind of wrong? He held up the sky and not the entire earth, right?
Huh. TIL that in the classical depictions, he’s holding up celestial spheres