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16th and 17th Century European Paintings.When the bark is cut, it spills red sap, said to be Ladon's blood. These dragon trees have enormous trunks, made of many wrap-around branches that are said to represent Ladon's hundred heads. When Ladon was slain, his blood fell all over the Garden of the Hesperides, where each drop sprouted a dragon tree. (The apples were subsequently given to the goddess Athena and she just gave them back to the Hesperides, so it was all a waste of time, then.) To prevent this Atlas refused to let anyone visit his home and when Perseus asked for hospitality in his land, Atlas denied him. The earth goddess Gaea gave the tree of golden apples to Hera as a wedding present and placed it in a secret location nevertheless, an oracle told Atlas that a son of Zeus would one day steal the golden apples guarded by his daughters. Atlas repays this lack of aggression by promptly killing the many-headed beast and steals the apples. In this story, Atlas was the father of the Hesperides, nymphs and guardians of the tree of golden apples. There was a dragon, called Ladon, guarding these apples - not just any old dragon either, but one with 100 heads, breathing fire!īut, it turns out, Atlas knows this dragon, so Hercules goes to him (still holding up the sky, remember) and offers to look after this sky-holding-up business, if Altas will pop over and take some of those golden apples.Ītlas agrees (presumably glad to get the sky off his shoulders for a bit), goes to the sunny, mild island - let's call it.um.Tenerife, where the dragon recognises him and, therefore, doesn't attack him. He didn't just have to deal with three girls.

Atlas and the hesperides