Hesperides: Greek Nymphs Who Guarded Fabled Garden With Divine Apples Of Immortality
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The most famous garden in Greek mythology was the Garden of the Hesperides. This legendary aromatic place was full of golden apples, which Gaia (Earth) gave to the goddess Hera and Zeus as a wedding gift.
The fabled garden was guarded by the nymphs of the far west, the Hesperides, daughters of the Titan Atlas, who bore the vault of heaven upon his gigantic and robust shoulders.
The land of Hesperides was variously located; eventually, it was placed near North Africa's Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the world ocean, Oceanus.
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