Atlante

Atlante : Male statue replacing a column in architecture. The male equivalent is a Caryatid . It supports on the neck and the shoulders a cornice, a platform, or another construction in corbelling.

Both Atlante and Caryatid suffer punishment.  The Caryatid were a warning to those who attacked Greece, this is what will happen to your women.

Atlas often is associated with punishment.  A common misconception today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe.

Atlas and his brother Menoetius sided with the Titans in their war against the Olympians, the Titanomachy. When the Titans were defeated, many of them (including Menoetius) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of Gaia (the Earth) and hold up the sky on his shoulders.[1] Thus, he was Atlas Telamon, "enduring Atlas," and became a doublet of Coeus, the embodiment of the celestial axis around which the heavens revolve.