Atlas gives the Golden Apples to Athena
And Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides; for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him.
Hesiod, Theogony
Figure 219: A section of a damaged Attic red-figure vase, ca. 490 BC,
with part of a scene in the Garden of the Hesperides. We can make out
Herakles, most of the serpent, about half the tree, and half of the
muscular body of Atlas as he elevates the heavens.
Figure 220: On this bronze relief shield band panel from about 550 BC,
Atlas resumes pushing away the heavens after Herakles had taken his
place so that Atlas could obtain the apples for him. Herakles will give
them to Athena. Before the Flood, Atlas pushed away the heavens so that
the way of Kain could develop. After the Flood, Herakles pushed away
the heavens so that Zeus-religion could develop.
End of Chapter 19 of The Parthenon Code: Mankind's History in Marble