In his twelve labors Hercules had to steal a golden apple from a tree guarded by a dragon.
This is the 11th labor: Heracles was asked to pick golden apples from Hera's tree, which was guarded by a serpent. Heracles killed the serpent and convinced Atlas to pick the apples.
The daughters of Atlas, the Hesperides, lived in a fabulous garden located at the western extremity of the world. There they guarded (with the aid of the dragon Ladon) a tree that bore golden apples. Hercules killed the dragon and obtained the apples as one of his 12 labors.
The Greeks named it Draco the dragon. In one of the more famous European myths, Draco represents Ladon, the dragon sometimes depicted with one hundred heads who guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. The eleventh of the Twelve Labours of Heracles was to steal the golden apples.
Hercules tricked the Titan Atlas into helping him get the golden apples.
Golden Apples.
In his twelve labors Hercules had to steal a golden apple from a tree guarded by a dragon.
Hera's golden apples grew in the Garde of Hesperides. Though the Hesperides were supposed to tend to the garden, the famed guardian of the golden apples is Ladon, the never-sleeping, hundred headed dragon.
This is the 11th labor: Heracles was asked to pick golden apples from Hera's tree, which was guarded by a serpent. Heracles killed the serpent and convinced Atlas to pick the apples.
The constellation 'Draco'. 'Draco' in Latin means 'dragon'. In Greek myths, 'Draco' would have represented the dragon Ladon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides and the golden apples.
I do not know if there is a special animal attributed to Atlas but he was famed for his flocks and herds and his garden of golden apples guarded by Hesperides.
The daughters of Atlas, the Hesperides, lived in a fabulous garden located at the western extremity of the world. There they guarded (with the aid of the dragon Ladon) a tree that bore golden apples. Hercules killed the dragon and obtained the apples as one of his 12 labors.
The Greeks named it Draco the dragon. In one of the more famous European myths, Draco represents Ladon, the dragon sometimes depicted with one hundred heads who guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. The eleventh of the Twelve Labours of Heracles was to steal the golden apples.
The dragon Ladon.
Because she was golden and rich and liked apples
The Golden Apples of the Sun was created in 1953.
The Golden Apples of the Sun has 192 pages.