Who is stronger Heracles or Atlas?

Question

Who is stronger Heracles or Atlas?

Answer 1

Atlas..he carried the world on his shoulders

Answer 2

Heracles

Heracles was strong enough to carry the world for Atlas when he bargained with him to go and fetch the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.  AND Heracles was smart enough to get Atlas to take the world back on his shoulders when Atlas was going to leave Heracles that thankless task.

Answer 3

Atlas, for although Heracles did have to hold up the world temporarily, it taxed his strength to the limit whereas Atlas has no trouble holding it up until the end of time.

Answer 4

For those people who already answered; neither Heracles nor Atlas held up the world - Atlas was cursed to hold up the heavens (the sky) - it was only on the first book of maps by a particular publisher who used a picture of Atlas holding up the world that propogated this - hence the name Atlas for a book of maps.

Answer 5

I think it's Atlas, because although Heracles did lift the dome of the sky, Atlas did it for thousands of years.

Also, Heracles did this so Atlas could perform a task that he, himself, could not do: overcome the dragon Ladon and pick the apples of the Hesperides.

But that could just because they were Atlas' daughters....