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Apples of the Hesperides

Objects · Myth & story

Named golden apples of a western garden in Greek story, a labour-prize rather than a wedding-insult. Not the apple of discord, and not the Golden Fleece.

Also known as Golden Apples of the Hesperides

Hellenic religion

  • Apples of the Hesperides appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony places the Hesperides as guardians of golden apples beyond Ocean. A named cosmogonic fruit-hoard, not Eris’s wedding apple and not the Golden Fleece.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Apples of the Hesperides is sacred to Hera.

    Hesiod’s Theogony gives Hera the Hesperides as keepers of her golden apples. A named fruit of that goddess, not the Golden Fleece, and not the Golden Bough.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    sacred to · sourced · documented

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