![]() The golden apples figured in different accounts of Heracles’ 11th Labour. As Ladon is the name of an Arcadian river, Arcadia was possibly the original site of the garden. ![]() The golden apples were also guarded by the dragon Ladon, the offspring of Phorcys and Ceto. They were usually said to live in the west beyond the sunset, but the Greek poet and grammarian Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century bc) placed them in North Africa, and the mythographer Apollodorus (2nd century bc) located them among the Hyperboreans. ![]() They were usually three in number, Aegle, Erytheia, and Hespere (or Hesperethusa), but by some accounts were as many as seven. According to Hesiod, they were the daughters of Erebus and Night in other accounts, their parents were Atlas and Hesperis or Phorcys and Ceto. Hesperides, (Greek: “Daughters of Evening”) singular Hesperis, in Greek mythology, clear-voiced maidens who guarded the tree bearing golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus.
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