When Poseidon desired the Earth, the legendary titan Atlas was born from their union. He was wild like his father and thoughtful like his mother. His brother Prometheus stole fire, and he himself fought for freedom. But, defeated in the war with the despots of Olympus, he was severely punished and forever doomed to hold the globe on his shoulders... This clearly fantastic and controversial ancient Greek plot was chosen by Janet Winterson for the international project “Myths,” as she herself put it, for “deeply personal reasons " After all, like for every modern person, for her - the famous rebel and holder of the Order of the British Empire - the story of burden, freedom, responsibility, loneliness, and the search for oneself cannot but be “deeply personal.” Translation: Alexey Osipov