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In an inaccessible spot, along the African coast, near the [|Atlas mountains] in Morocco is a beautiful garden that is tended by nymphs. The nymphs are called Hesperides. In this garden grow magic, golden apples that can grant immortality. These apples are guarded by a dragon named [|Ladon].

The garden was a gift from [|Gaia] to [|Hera]. Hera placed the nymphs in the garden to tend it.

Hercules was given the task of stealing apples from the Garden as [|his 11th Labor].

Picture of the Hesperides who tend the Garden. Luke refers to a field trip he and other half-bloods took to the Garden of Hesperides. He refers vaguely to something he did there that caused the trip to "go sour" (102). Maybe he tried to take an apple!
 * Connection to //the Lightning Thief//**

SOURCES Appendix to the Handbook of Marvel Comics. Aug. 29 2010. http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3 /hesperides.htm
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"Hesperides" Wikipedia. 30 Aug. 2010. 

Riordan, Rick. //The Lightning Thief//. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006.

Rouse, WHD. //Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece//. New York: New American Library, 2001**.**

Leighton, Frederick Lord. "Garden of the Hesperides." 1892. Aspect Art. http://www.google.com /imgres?imgurl=http://www.aspectart.com/.
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