For the latter, ignorant of the way to the HESPERIDES, came to Mount Caucasuswhere Prometheus 1 was chainedand killing the eagle that tortured him, set him free. Others say that Prometheus 1, out of gratitude, pointed out the way to Heracles 1.
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Having learned from them how to find Nereus, Heracles 1 caught this old god asleep, and though he proceeded as usual to turn himself into all kinds of shapes in order to get away, Heracles 1 did not release him until Nereus told him where the HESPERIDES and their wonderful Golden Apples were to be found. In order to fetch the apples, some say, Heracles 1 visited first the NYMPHS, daughters of Zeus and Themis, who lived by the river Eridanus. Some affirm that Ladon 4 was immortal, but others tell that Heracles 1 killed him when he, following the orders of his tormentor Eurystheus, came to fetch the Golden Apples and they add that the flies which came to the wounds caused by the poisoned arrows of Heracles 1 (for he had dipped his arrows in the gall of the Hydra) withered and died. Yet some have represented it as a regular snake coiled round the apple-tree. This dragon, called sometimes Ladon 4, was, according to some, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, or according to others, of Phorcus and Ceto 1, and having one hundred heads, it was able to speak with many different voices.
However, the HESPERIDES kept picking the Golden Apples from the tree, and that is the reason why Hera decided to place a guardian dragon which was never overcome by sleep, although others say that the HESPERIDES and the dragon guarded the Golden Apples jointly, the monster guarding the tree, and the HESPERIDES singing their lovely songs around it. When Zeus married Hera, Gaia gave them as a wedding gift, the Golden Apples and Hera, feeling great admiration for these wonderful fruits, asked Gaia to plant them in the garden that Hera kept near Mount Atlas, in the region we today may call northwestern Africa, but that was then called Libya. HESPERIDES are called the women who guarded the Golden Apples that Heracles 1 had to fetch. "And Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides." (Hesiod, Theogony 319). Maioliche di Castelli d'Abruzzo del XVII e XVIII Secolo. The golden apples that Aphrodite gave to Hippomenes before his race with Atalanta were also from the garden of the Hesperides.7702: Heracles and the Hesperides. In some artistic representations Heracles dines with the Hesperides, who freely give him the apples. In another version Heracles held the heavens while Atlas took the apples for him. In one version Heracles slayed the dragon and took the apples. The golden apples figured in different accounts of Heracles’ 11th Labour. As Ladon is the name of an Arcadian river, Arcadia was possibly the original site of the garden. The golden apples were also guarded by the dragon Ladon, the offspring of Phorcys and Ceto. They were usually said to live in the west beyond the sunset, but the Greek poet and grammarian Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC) placed them in North Africa, and the mythographer Apollodorus (2nd century BC) located them among the Hyperboreans. They were usually three in number, Aegle, Erytheia, and Hespere (or Hesperethusa), but by some accounts were as many as seven. According to Hesiod, they were the daughters of Erebus and Night in other accounts, their parents were Atlas and Hesperis or Phorcys and Ceto. Hesperides, (Greek: 'Daughters of the Evening') singular Hesperis, in Greek mythology, were clear-voiced maidens who guarded the tree bearing golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus.
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