![]() Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of citiesīerenice, also called Hesperides, a town in Libya, 312 GARDEN OF HESPERIDES DRAGON FULLThere he was reared by the lily maidens called Hesperides, till he came to his full strength, and commanded the whole army of the Aethiopes. Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sourcesįamous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls The Hesperides is a collection of more than a thousand short poems, a few of which you have already read in this chapter.įour maidens called the Hesperides, daughters of Night, were the guardians of this sacred garden, and with them watched the hundred-headed dragon, Ladon, whose father was Phorkys, the parent of many monsters. The Hesperides were the three daughters of Night, who ruled the guardian dragon. noun (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera.noun plural The garden producing the golden apples.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. Same as the Hesperideæ of Sachs.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. In botany, a class of plants founded by Endlicher, including the orders Humiriaceæ, Olacineæ, Aurantiaceæ, Meliaceæ, and Cedrelaceæ.Their origin and number (from three to seven) are variously given. ![]() ![]() In Greek myth, nymphs who guarded, with the aid of a fierce serpent, the golden apples given by Ge (Earth) to Hera (Juno), in delightful gardens at the western extremity of the world, supposed to be in the region of Mount Atlas in Africa. ![]()
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