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Hesperides

In Greek mythology, the maidens who tended a tree bearing the golden apples of immortality, a wedding present to the goddess Hera from Gaia, mother of the Earth. Their garden was guarded by Ladon, a 100-headed dragon. The apples were taken by the hero Heracles as one of his 12 labours, but returned by the goddess Athena.

Traditions vary concerning their numbers (usually three), parentage, and setting. The Athenian scholar Apollodorus placed their garden near Mount Atlas, but Hesiod later described them on the Islands of the Blessed (also known as the Hesperides) far to the west on the borders of the ocean. Their father was represented as either Hesperus, the evening star, or the Titan Atlas who held up the heavens.



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This garden of the Hesperides was sometimes thought to be the same as the fabled island of Atlantis of which we have already heard.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
they have gone off to spend their honeymoon, and Margaret has written to me twice to say how happy they are together in the Hesperides.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
And again the goddess murky Night, though she lay with none, bare Blame and painful Woe, and the Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Ocean.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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