Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• 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)
• Busiris and Heracles in Egypt
  Local and lesser — Heraclean / Egyptian encounter (Labors itinerary) · Apollodorean (+ Pherecydian / Isocratean rhetorical use; vase tradition)

Places appearing with them

• Altar of Zeus
• Arabia
• Caucasus
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Garden of the Hesperides
• Illyria
• Land of the Hyperboreans
• Mycenae
• Outer sea
• Phoenicia
• River Echedorus
• River Eridanus
• Road of the Hesperides labor
• Thermydrae

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• War