In Greek mythology, the "apple of Hesperides" represents eternal life, the food of the god's eternal youth, and this is the wedding gift given to Hera by the earth god Gaia. Hera planted golden apples in a garden near the Atlas Mountains, the westernmost part of Greece, and was guarded by Hesperides, the three daughters of the god Atlas, and Radon, a hundred dragons who never slept.
Golden apples
The apple tree grew dense golden branches and leaves, bearing golden apples, and the light emitted by the apple tree dyed the western sky golden.
Hera Gardens
Whenever the sun set, Hesperides appeared in the garden, humming beautiful songs while tending to the apple trees.
Hesperides
Golden Apple vignette
Hercules, Hercules, successfully completed the eleventh mission with the help of the prophets Prometheus and Atlas. Eurystheus offered the apples picked by Hercules to Athena, the goddess of war, who later redelivered them to Hera's garden.
Hercules picks the golden apple
The tyrant Commodus worshipped Hercules, the god Hercules, and called himself the Hercules of the Roman Empire. Pictured below is a sculpture of Commodus, whose golden apple in his left hand represents a strong desire to transcend power and pursue eternal life.
Commodus
When the Pythian king Peleus married the sea nymph Thetis, he did not send an invitation to Eris, and the unhappy Eris threw a golden apple with the words "To the most beautiful goddess" into the banquet hall, causing a lot of commotion.
Eris quietly threw in the golden apple
Hera, the queen of heaven, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love, held a beauty contest with Paris the Prince of Troy as a judge. Aphrodite won the contest on the condition that Paris marry a peerless beauty. After the match, Aphrodite kept her promise and helped Paris and Helen the Spartan queen, which became the trigger for the Trojan War.
Three goddesses are more beautiful than beautiful
Hippomenes won the race by disturbing the attention of Atalanta, the "first runner", by using three golden apples, and finally succeeded in marrying Atalanta.
Hippomenes and Atalanta
Is it true that Hera grew oranges instead of apples?
Tangerines originate from China and have been cultivated for more than 4,000 years. Spread to Europe through the Middle East around the 9th and 10th centuries AD, and cultivated on a small scale in Sicily and southern Spain, it is a very rare fruit. When Greek mythology was born, there were no apples in Greece, and people did not know what apples were, and myth lovers speculated that the Greeks called yellow oranges golden apples.
tangerine
I don't know if it's an apple or an orange, "Hesperides' apple" is always a constant topic.
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