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As with all Classic Myth, the stories of the Titans are "remembrances" about real people & events told in a symbol/symbolic way...
My favorite Titan is Poseidon, who, according to the oldest traditions kept by the Egyptians:
"... took for his realm Ocean... and on an island therein, near the the straits called by the Greeks the Pillars of Heracles, he took for his wife a mortal woman and sired five sets of twin sons by her, giving to each portions of the lands and islands thereabouts to rule... the first born of the first set he named Atlas, whom he made king over the rest... and thereafter Ocean was then renamed the Atlantic, the lands and islands called Atlantis, and the highest mountain in the land named Atlas in his honor..."
I've likewise seen the famous & magnificent bronze statue you refer to. According to the museum people, it was generally thought to be of Zeus when recovered from an ancient ship wreck in the 1920s, but now the thinking favors it being intended to represent Poseidon...