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Eurystheus commanded Hercules to bring him golden apples which belonged to Zeus, king of the gods. Hera had given these apples to Zeus as a wedding gift, so surely this task was impossible. Hera, who didn't want to see Hercules succeed, would never permit him to steal one of her prize possessions, would she?
Apr 4, 2023 · However, as soon as he’d put down the apples and taken the sky back from Heracles, the hero picked up the apples and made a run for it. Clever. After Heracles showed the apples to Eurystheus, Athene took them back to the garden: they were the property of Zeus and Hera after all. See the comic in more detail:
Atlas accordingly fetched the apples, but on his return he refused to take the burden of heaven on his shoulders again, and declared that he himself would carry the apples to Eurystheus. Heracles, however, contrived by a stratagem to get the apples and hastened away.
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PARENTS
[1.1] NYX (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 215) [1.2] EREBOS & NYX (Hyginus Pref, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17) [2.1] ATLAS & HESPERIS (Diodorus Sicululs 4.26.2) [2.2] ATLAS (Pherecydes Frag, Hyginus Astronomica 2.3) [3.1] HESPEROS (Scholiast on Euripides Hippolytus) [4.1] ZEUS & THEMIS (Servius on Virgil's Aeneid 4.484) [5.1] PHORKYS & KETO (Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius 4.1399)
NAMES
[1.1] AIGLE, ERYTHEIA, HESPERETHOOSA (Hesiod Doubtful Frag 3) [1.2] AIGLE, ERYTHEIS, HESPERIE, ARETHOUSA (Apollodoros 2.113) [1.3] AIGLE, ERYTHEIS, HESPERE (Apollonius Rhodius 4.1390) [1.4] AIGLE, HESPERIE, AERIKA (Hyginus Preface) [1.5] ASTEROPE, KHRYSOTHEMIS, LIPARA (Vase Painting N14.1)
OFFSPRING OF ERYTHEIA
[1.1] EURYTION (Stesichorus Geryoneis Frag S8)
HESPE′RIDES (Hesperides), the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at her marriage with Zeus. Their names are Aegle, Erytheia, Hesperia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same in the different traditions ; sometimes they are called the daughters of Night or Erebus (Hes. Theog. 215; Hygin. Fab. init.), sometimes ...
CHILDREN OF THE HESPERIDES
The Hesperis Erytheia was the mother of Eurytion, herdsman of Geryon, who lived on the island of Erytheia near the home of the Hesperides. Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S8 (from Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2617) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric III) (C6th to 7th B.C.) : "Over the waves and the waves and the deep brine they [the infant Eurytion and his mother the Hesperid Erytheia] came to the beautiful island of the gods, where the Hesperides have their homes of solid gold." Stesichorus, Geryonei...
HESPERIDES GODDESSES OF EVENING & SUNSETS
The Hesperides were goddesses of the garden of the golden apples in the farthest west.The golden glow of these apples was surely envisaged as the source of sunsets. Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 1023 (from Berlin Papyrus) (trans. Campbell) : "The choir-leaders of the Hesperides (Evenings) driving their two-horse chariot along the path of night to the new turning-point, where Nyx (Night) passes through the light-bringing radiance in the eastern air; and she brings the day's light, flying o...
HESPERIDES HERALDS OF THE BRIDAL NIGHT
The Hesperides, as goddesses of evening, were also the heralds of the bridal night. They were depicted in ancient art attending the wedding of Peleus and Thetis and serving ambrosia to the gods at the bridal feast. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 4. 128 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) : "[The wedding of Peleus and Thetis :] Singing of Peleus' Bridal of Delight, which all the blest Immortals brought to pass by Pelion's crests; sang of the ambrosial feast when the swift Horai (Horae) bro...
GREEK
1. Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th - 7th B.C. 2. Greek Lyric III Stesichorus, Fragments - Greek Lyric C7th - 6th B.C. 3. Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments - Greek Lyric B.C. 4. Aeschylus, Fragments - Greek Tragedy C5th B.C. 5. Euripides, Hippolytus - Greek Tragedy C5th B.C. 6. Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D. 7. Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica - Greek Epic C3rd B.C. 8. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History C1st B.C. 9. Strabo, Geography - Greek...
ROMAN
1. Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D. 2. Virgil, Aeneid - Latin Epic C1st B.C. 3. Cicero, De Natura Deorum - Latin Rhetoric C1st B.C. 4. Pliny the Elder, Natural History - Latin Encyclopedia C1st A.D. 5. Seneca, Hercules Furens - Latin Tragedy C1st A.D. 6. Statius, Thebaid - Latin Epic C1st A.D.
OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Euripides Madness of Heracles 394, Pliny Natural History 6.31 & 6.36, Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius 4.1399, Scholiast on Euripides Hippolytus, Servius on Virgil's Aeneid 4.484, Servius s.v . Hesperides, Orphic Fragment 17, Pompelus Mela 3.10.
Nov 29, 2023 · King Eurystheus, eager to see Hercules fail, assigned him the near-impossible task of retrieving the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. These apples were a wedding gift from Gaia to Hera, and they were famed for their beauty and divine properties.
The first of these two additional Labours was to steal the apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Heracles first caught the Old Man of the Sea, [37] the shape-shifting sea god, to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located.
Nov 1, 2016 · Eurystheus told Heracles to bring him the golden apples from Hera’s garden. He set off on the mission steal the apples, but the initial problem was the hidden location of the garden. Heracles met up with a son of the god Ares, Kyknos, and challenged him to a fight in exchange for directions to the garden.
