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garden of the Hesperides

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garden of the Hesperides
in this garden grew a tree with golden apples. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 109]
See : Heaven

Garden of the Hesperides
quiet garden of the gods where golden apples grew. [Gk. Lit.: Hippolytus; Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 25]
See : Paradise


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They belonged to a Polynesian garden of the Hesperides.
This garden of the Hesperides was sometimes thought to be the same as the fabled island of Atlantis of which we have already heard.
I have come hither because this is my most convenient road to the garden of the Hesperides, whither I am going to get three of the golden apples for King Eurystheus.
 
 
 
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