10 ERASMUS+ KA2 Searching for the Labours of Hercules 2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990 Italy – Sicily - The Apples of Hesperides Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the golden apples. Hera had given them to him as a wedding gift. She would never allow Hercules to steal them. They were kept in a garden at the northern edge of the world, and they were guarded by a hundred-headed dragon, Ladon, and by the Hesperides, daughters of Atlas, the titan who held the sky and the earth upon his shoulders. Hercules's first problem was that he didn't know where the garden was. He journeyed through Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Asia, He had single-combats with several contenders. Continuing on his quest, Hercules was stopped by Antaeus, the son of the sea god, Poseidon, who also challenged Hercules to fight. He was chained to the mountain, and every day a monstrous eagle ate his liver. This lasted 30 years, until Hercules killed the eagle. In gratitude, Prometheus told Hercules how to get the apples.And so Hercules picked up the apples and quickly ran off, carrying them back, uneventfully, to Eurystheus. There was one final problem: because they belonged to the gods, the apples could not remain with Eurystheus. After all the trouble Hercules According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the "Song of Geryon", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographic (volume III), the garden of the Hesperides is located in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula. The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in the west, where either a single apple tree or a grove grows, producing golden apples that grant immortality.
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ERASMUS+ KA2 Searching for the Labours of Hercules2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990
Italy – Sicily - The Apples of Hesperides
Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the golden apples. Hera had given them to him as a wedding gift. She would never allow Hercules to steal them. They were kept in a garden at the northern edge of the world, and they were guarded by a hundred-headed dragon, Ladon, and by the Hesperides, daughters of Atlas, the titan who held the sky and the earth upon his shoulders.
Hercules's first problem was that he didn't know where the garden was. He journeyed through Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Asia, He had single-combats with several contenders. Continuing on his quest, Hercules was stopped by Antaeus, the son of the sea god, Poseidon, who also challenged Hercules to fight. Hercules defeated him in a wrestling match, lifting him off the ground and crushing him, because when Antaeus touched
the earth he became stronger.
Hercules came to the rock on Mt Caucasus where Prometheus was trapped. Prometheus, who had stolen the secret of fire from the gods, was condemned by Zeus
He was chained to the mountain, and every day a monstrous eagle
ate his liver. This lasted 30 years,
until Hercules killed the eagle. In gratitude, Prometheus told Hercules how to get the apples.And so Hercules picked up the apples and quickly ran off, carrying them back, uneventfully, to Eurystheus. There was one final problem: because they belonged to the gods, the apples could not remain with Eurystheus. After all the trouble Hercules went through to get them, he had to return them to Athena, who took them back to the garden at the northern edge of the world.
According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the "Song of Geryon", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographic (volume III), the garden of the Hesperides is located in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.
The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in the west, where either a single apple tree or a grove grows, producing golden apples that grant immortality.
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