![]() ![]() Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes: Heracles ( Hercules in Roman mythology) and Perseus. The myth of the garden of the Hesperides has its most accurate literary descriptions in Hesiod's Theogony, which refers to the "beautiful, golden apples", and in the choral odes of Euripides, which mentions the "springs of ambrosia" of that "divine land, which generates life "and the" back fawn serpent ", guardian of the golden apples. In Greek mythology, Atlas ( / tls / Greek:, tlas) is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. The famous "Snitch of Discord" also emerged from the garden of the Hesperides, by which Athena, Hera and Aphrodite submitted to the judgment of Paris. Plínio and Solino report only two mortals (heroes) who found the gardens of the Hesperides: Perseus when he went to face Medusa and Heracles in one of the famous Twelve works of Hercules. The garden itself was populated by monsters that protected it, such as a terrible dragon, son of Forcis and Cetu, and also Ladão, the hundred-headed dragon son of Typhon and Echidna. There were many obstacles to reaching the garden, such as the grotto of the greens and the grotto of the gorgons. The garden of the Hesperides was known as the garden of the immortals, as it contained an orchard that housed magical trees from which the golden apples were born, considered sources of eternal youth. I lifted the huge stones with my own hands and piled them carefully. Winterson writes, I built a walled garden, a temenos, a sacred space. ![]() Hera found them so beautiful that she had them planted in her garden, in the far West. The wall that Atlas builds around the Garden of Hesperides is constructed in such a way that it explains freedom and nothingness that can sometimes be unappreciated. In our culture a connection has been made between these apples and the golden coloured. In their (hidden) garden was the ‘Tree of Life’ the golden apples from this tree, provided eternal youth. This name was taken from the Greek mythology, the Hesperides, the daughters of Atlas. They tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean. When Hera married Zeus, she received some golden apples from Gaia as a wedding gift. This special garden was named: Garden of Hesperides. The Hesperides are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the 'Daughters of the Evening' or 'Nymphs of the West' and the 'Spawn of the Morning Star'. The Garden of Hesperides was considered the most beautiful of all Antiquity. ![]()
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