![]() The Golden Apples of the Hesperides remind us of the Golden Apples we encounter in Norse mythology. Golden Apples – A Popular Motif In Ancient Myths The king did not want the divine apples of immortality he understood they belonged to the gods and especially to the goddess Hera, so eventually, the apples returned to the Garden of Hesperides. Heracles and Ladon guarding the tree of the golden apples. Heracles tricked Atlas and walked away with the apples and could now deliver them to Eurystheus. After returning with the apples, Atlas surprisingly refused to retake his job as the eternal holder of the heavens and instead offered to deliver the apples himself, hoping to gain his freedom again. Most popular version of this story is that Herakles asked Atlas’s help in obtaining them and even held up the sky while Atlas was retrieving the apples.
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