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The Hesperides (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες) are nymphs in Greek mythology. They look after a peaceful garden in the far west of the world. The garden is located near Cyrene (or Benghazi) in Libya or the Atlas Mountains further west. In the Ancient Greek view of the world, this is at the edge of Oceanus, the world-ocean. The nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.

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  • Mosaico Trabajos Hércules (M.A.N. Madrid) 11

    Detail of a third century AD Roman mosaic of the Labours of Hercules from Llíria, Spain showing Heracles stealing the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides

  • Albert Herter - Garden of Hesperides

    Garden of Hesperides by Albert Herter

  • Hercules and the Hesperides by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

    Hercules and the Hesperides by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

  • Hesperides, Dance around the Golden Tree by Edward Calvert

    Hesperides, Dance around the Golden Tree by Edward Calvert

  • Huerto de las Hespérides

    Huerto de las Hespérides, 1909

  • The Garden of Hesperides by Ricciardo Meacci

    The Garden of Hesperides by Ricciardo Meacci

  • Turner, Joseph Mallord William - The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides - c. 1806

    Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

  • Singer Sargent, John - Atlas and the Hesperides - 1925

    Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent

  • Hesperides, sive, De malorvm avreorvm cvltvra et vsv libri quatuor (Page 11) BHL273076

    Hesperides and Heracles

  • Rudolf Jettmar - Hercule et les Hesperides

    Hercule et les Hesperides by Rudolf Jettmar

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