The Norse Gods maintain their immortality with similar golden apples provided by Idunn the Norse Goddess of Spring and Youth.In The Titan's Curse, Thalia mistakenly says the apples of immortality was a wedding gift from Zeus to Hera, when it was in fact Gaea who gave it.According to Hesiod, they were the daughters of Erebus and Night in other accounts, their parents were Atlas and Hesperis or Phorcys and Ceto. Eo cum venisset, causam veniendi exposuit, filiasque suas vehementer hortatus est ut. Hesperides, (Greek: Daughters of Evening) singular Hesperis, in Greek mythology, clear-voiced maidens who guarded the tree bearing golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus. The Apples of the Hesperides Facts, Information, and Mythology The Apples of the Hesperides The eleventh of the Twelve Labors of Heracles. After Atlas departed he went as swiftly as possible to the garden of the Hesperides, which was a few miles away. The apples of immortality grow on a five-story-tall apple tree and are described as glittering golden apples that gave off an appealing fragrance, so much that Percy Jackson knew that one bite would be the "most delicious thing ever tasted". Postquam Atlas discessit, ad hortum Hesperidum, qui pauca milia passuum aberat, quam celerrime se contulit. Later when Percy, Thalia Grace, and Zoë enter the Hesperides' Garden, they see the golden apples being guarded by the sleeping Ladon. Copy this to my account E-mail to a friend Find other activities Start over Help Flashcards. The apples Idunn guarded in Norse myth kept the gods immortal as long as they kept eating them, but when the giants kidnapped her, the gods began to age (and the giants stopped). Hercules was tasked with stealing them as one of his Twelve Labours. Percy Jackson dreamt Zoë instructing Hercules how to steal the apples of immortality. Latin 2 The Golden Apples of the Hesperides. The apples of the Hesperides were golden apples, which is why they needed a guard. Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning ThiefĪ bitter Luke tells Percy Jackson about his quest and the aftermath of it. However, he tricks the Titan General into holding up the sky once more, completing his quest without so much as giving credit to Zoë for her help. Later, Hercules takes on the burden of the sky, freeing Atlas who successfully retrieves the apples from the Garden of the Hesperides. He is helped on his quest by the Hespirid Zoë Nightshade, who tells him to trick her father Atlas into getting the apples for him, as Ladon is too strong to overcome. Hercules, a hero who retrieved the applesĪs his eleventh labor, Hercules was instructed to steal the apples of immortality. His daughters, the Hesperides, guarded the tree with Ladon. She ordered the tree to be planted in a garden at the farthest western corner of the earth, right at the feet of the Titan Atlas. At the wedding of Zeus and Hera, a sapling bearing the apples of immortality burst from the ground, which Hera immediately recognized as a gift from her grandmother Gaea.
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