The Probert Encyclopaedia of Greek & Roman Mythology

HESPERIDES

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were certain nymphs who lived in gardens, of rather uncertain locality, as guardians of the golden apples that grew there, being assisted in the charge by a dragon. Hesiod places the gardens in an island of the ocean far to the west. It was the eleventh labour of Heracles to kill the dragon and bring the golden apples of the Hesperides to Eurystheus.
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