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Golden Apples Of The Hesperides

Lateral part of a vase that shows Atlas related to Heracles the Apples of the Hesperides. (Source: lekythos white background created between 490 and 480 BC. , National Archaeological Museum of Athens )

Hercules stealing the golden apples. Detail from a mosaic depicting the 12 Labours of Hercules Llria (Valencia, Spain), first half of III ^century

After killing Ladon , the dragon who guarded the garden, Heracles won the apples.

According to some interpretations ^{See also}

The Twelve Labors of Heracles
1. Overcoming the Nemean lion 2. Killing the Hydra of Lerna 3. Beat the race of the deer Crynie 4. Capture boar Erymanthus 5. Clean the Augean stables 6. Kill the birds of Lake Stymphalus 7. Capture the Cretan bull 8. Capturing the mares of Diomedes 9. Report the belt of Hippolyte 10. steal the oxen of Geryon 11. pluck the golden apples of the Hesperides 12. Chaining Cerberus