Garden of the Hesperides

Place · slug: garden-of-the-hesperides

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)
Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Heracles Slays the Dragon Himself)
Heroes — Heracles · Alternate classical (Heracles enters the garden, kills the guardian serpent, and plucks the apples — vs. Atlas as intermediary)
Circe’s Purification; Libya and Triton’s Gift (Return Voyage)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian return (Circe cleanses kin-blood; later Libyan shoals and Triton)
Atalanta’s Footrace: Melanion and the Golden Apples
Heroes — Atalanta · Apollodorean Greek (Melanion; Aphrodite’s apples; metamorphosis into lions)

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library