Another legend involves Atlas and Perseus. In another myth the Hesperides was visited by Perseus who had been told by the Graiae that the Hesperides could help him find the Gorgon Medusa. The Eleventh Labor of Hercules was to slay the guarding serpent and get some of the golden apples. The legend of the Garden of the Hesperides and the golden apples of immortality were the basis of many myths involving the quests of the 'Heroes' of Greek mythology. Legends about the Garden of the Hesperides The serpent Ladon was the off-spring of the monsters Typhon and Echidna. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon, or serpent, named Ladon to guard the golden apple tree. However, they occasionally plucked the golden apples for themselves. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove and spent their time happily singing and dancing when their attention was not devoted to gardening. Erytheis was in charge of pruning and tending the sacred apple tree
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