Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
• Heracles and Antaeus
  Heroes — Heracles / side labor (Libya) · Apollodorean / Pindaric — earth-giant wrestler slain by lifting
• Antaeus the Wrestler: Heracles in Libya
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Libyan · Apollodorean / Pindaric (Earth-son; lift and crush)

Places appearing with them

• Arabia
• Caucasus
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Hesperides itinerary
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mycenae
• Outer sea
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Temple of Poseidon
• Thermydrae

Themes

• Abduction
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice