Hercules tricked the Titan Atlas into helping him get the golden apples.
You are likely referring to the Titan Atlas, who was famously vanquished by Hercules during his Twelve Labors. Hercules tricked Atlas into taking back the weight of the heavens temporarily while he retrieved the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides. In some accounts, Atlas is depicted as being burdened by the weight of the sky, contrasting with Hercules' strength and cunning in overcoming him.
The Titan Atlas.
He isn't a god, Prometheus is a titan, after being freed, Prometheus told Heracles not to pick the apples, but to get Atlas to get them, by tricking him.
Various accounts have the Titan Mimas slain by Hercules
Various accounts have the Titan Mimas slain by Hercules
It wasn't a god. It was the Titan Atlas. . After Heracles liberated the titan Prometheus, he helped him by telling him not to take the apples himself, but to seek the help of Atlas, his brother. Atlas carried the heavens in his back, Heracles took the place of Atlas, and Atlas got the apples but didnt want to carry the heavy burden any more. Heracles tricked him to take his original place again and got the apples.
Various accounts have the Titan Mimas slain by Hercules
The Titan Atlas.
He isn't a god, Prometheus is a titan, after being freed, Prometheus told Heracles not to pick the apples, but to get Atlas to get them, by tricking him.
The oldest story of Atlas comes from Greek mythology, where he was a Titan condemned by Zeus to hold up the celestial spheres. This myth is most famously depicted in the story of Heracles (Hercules) retrieving the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides, where Atlas plays a prominent role.
Various accounts have the Titan Mimas slain by Hercules
Various accounts have the Titan Mimas slain by Hercules
Atlas, the Titan.After Heracles liberated the titan Prometheus, he helped him by telling him not to take the apples himself, but to seek the help of Atlas, his brother.Atlas carried the heavens in his back, Heracles took the place of Atlas, and Atlas got the apples but didnt want to carry the heavy burden any more. Heracles tricked him to take his original place again and got the apples.
Hercules was the son of Zeus. He killed the snake-headed Hydra, but she was not usually called a Titan.
Kronos, and Atlas. That's all i know, but I think theres more.
Atlas was the titan who's punishment it was to hold up the weight of the world until the end of time after the great war, but for a while it was Hercules who held it up for one of his twelve labors so that Atlas could get a golden apple form the garden of Hesperides which his daughters alongside a serpent (who Hercules had killed using his bow for Atlas) guarded.
Kronos is not a god, he is a titan, titans are the gods of the golden time they came before Olympus and the big three, he was the father titan and the titan of deception