god
Atlas
also: Атлант, Атланта
The Titan condemned to hold up the heavens for eternity, and in myth the father of the Pleiades, including Maia; Chekhov's piece jokes about the practical impossibility of Atlas ever finding time to father a daughter.
Reading notes
- On May §6 Atlas
The Titan condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders for eternity -- the punchline of Chekhov's mock-scholarly aside is the absurdity of how, so burdened, he ever found time to father the Pleiades.