In his twelve labors Hercules had to steal a golden apple from a tree guarded by a dragon.
Hercules tricked the Titan Atlas into helping him get the golden apples.
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.
He stole the golden apples from the garden of the Hespiredes, he slew the Nemean Lion, the Hydra and many more monsters
When Hercules' physical strength wouldn't let him solve a problem, yes he did use his intelligence. For example, when Atlas wanted to pick apples, Hercules held up the sky for him. When Atlas wouldn't take it back, Hercules tricked him.
Hercules tricked the Titan Atlas into helping him get the golden apples.
The Mighty Hercules - 1963 Search of the Golden Apples was released on: USA: 1963
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in one of Hercules's labours he got 3 golden apples from the Hesperides Garden
Hercules (known as Heracles in the Greek) One of the twelve labors of Hercules was to get the golden apples which grow in Hera's garden. The apples were guarded by the daughters of Atlas. In order to receive the apples Hercules took the world from Atlas' shoulders. Atlas got the apples for Hercules, however he had no intention of taking back the world from his shoulders. Hercules tricked him into taking it back and then left with the apples.
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.
He stole the golden apples from the garden of the Hespiredes, he slew the Nemean Lion, the Hydra and many more monsters
Ladon was the onehundred headed dragon who gaurded the golden apples. Hercules had to get a golden apple for a labor but could not defeat Ladon in hand to hand combat. Hercules then went off and shot Ladon full of poisened arrows. Then hercules took an apple and completed his labor. Tis is one of the many storys about hercules vs. Ladon.
In the traditional visualization of Hercules, he's kneeling with one "foot" on the "head" of Draco, who represents the dragon Ladon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides. In the myth Heracles killed Ladon to obtain the golden apples.
Because she was golden and rich and liked apples
The Golden Apples of the Sun was created in 1953.