The Hesperides, Nymphs who guard the Golden Apples
The Hespirides were the nymphs who guarded the Tree of the Golden Apples. Their names were Aegle, Erttheia and Hesperia.
Parents[]
Atlas (father) & Hesperis (mother)
Erebos (father) & Nyx (mother) (Hesiod's Theogony)
Siblings[]
Hyas, Pleiades, Hyades, Calypso or Aether, Hemera, Hypnos, Thanatos, Moros, Momus, Moirai, Oizys, Geras, Eris, Nemesis, Apate, Oneiroi, Keres, Ker
Garden of the Hesperides
The Hesperides & Ladon
Coin depicting the Hesperides & Ladon in their garden which held the Golden Apples Herakles had to retrieve for his eleventh labor.
