In this garden grows the tree with the golden apples, which [[Gaia]] had given as a wedding present to [[Hera]], after she married [[Zeus]]. This garden and the tree are guarded by [[Ladon]], a dragon with a hundred heads. as the eleventh of his twelve labours, [[Hercules]] managed to steal some of the apples, by tricking [[Atlas]] into picking them for him.
The Hesperides are named as Aegle, Arethusa, Erytheia and Hesperia. <ref>.http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hesperides.html</ref>
==References==
* Graves, Robert (1955): The Greek Myths: Pub. Pelican
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