Greek nymphs who guard the tree with the golden apples in the garden of the gods, along with the dragon → Ladon. They were supposed to be daughters of the night (→ Nyx) or of the giant →...

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (Greek: Ἑσπερίδες) are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in Libya, or on a distant blessed island at the edge of the encircling Oceanus,...