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Garden of the Hesperides (Lixus)

Beware of the Dragon

Pay no heed to the false claims of Tartessos and Erytheia to be the location of the Garden of Hesperides! for according to the venerable writers Pliny the Elder and Strabo, it was here - at Lixus in North Africa - where Herakles was sent to harvest the golden apples as his penultimate Labour.

The palace of the 'Libyan' (ie African) king Antaeus lies on an island in the estuary of the River Loukkos, and behind the palace stretches the Garden, planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to Hera as a wedding gift. The garden with its immortality-giving golden apples is tended by the three Hesperides, and protected by the never-sleeping, hundred-headed, dragon Ladon.

Visitors may step carefully around Ladon, and enter the blessed Garden of the Hesperides!

Main image: Trees with golden apples, fresco fragments from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. Background image by Mehdi. The golden apples were windfalls.

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