place

Hesperides

Places

The far western garden and its nymphs’ isle in Greek speech. Not the Apples object alone, and not Isles of the Blessed as a forced twin.

Also known as Garden of the Hesperides

Hellenic religion

  • Hesperides appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Heracles speech seats the Hesperides’ garden among the labor places of the golden apples. A named Hesperides place in that poem, not apples-of-hesperides as the fruit alone and not apple-of-discord.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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