Gold apples of the garden of Hespérides

In the Greek Mythology, the apples of gold of the garden of Hespérides indicate apples given by Gaïa to Héra like gift of weddings, and preserved by the Hespérides, girls of Atlas in a garden with the borders of the world.

Héraclès, which was charged to bring back apples to Eurysthée (one of its twelve work), had much evil to find its way, and obliged Nérée to indicate the direction of the garden to him. According to another version, it is Prométhée which showed this way to him, by recognition to have released it from the the Caucasus where it was connected.

After having killed Ladon, the dragon which kept the garden, it carried apples. According to another version, it encouraged Atlas to go to seek apples and supported the sky in its place while it was carried out. Some claim that Atlas then refused to take again its burden, and that it was necessary that Héraclès used the trick for making him begin again.

According to certain interpretations, the gold apples would be in fact of the orange S. Indeed, the oranges were still unknown Greeks and those resemble apples of a strange color.

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