memestoanend@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 14 days agowhat we've clearly forgottenlemmy.worldimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1692arrow-down111
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minus-squareMuffi@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 days 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-up1·13 days 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