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    In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs who tended a blissful garden located near the Atlas Mountains in North Africa or in Libya. The garden contained a tree that produced golden apples. According to later Greek poets and historians, the garden's location was also placed in southern Spain. By Roman times, the garden of the Hesperides had become a poetic convention rather than a religious site.

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    In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs who tended a blissful garden located near the Atlas Mountains in North Africa or in Libya. The garden contained a tree that produced golden apples. According to later Greek poets and historians, the garden's location was also placed in southern Spain. By Roman times, the garden of the Hesperides had become a poetic convention rather than a religious site.

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    In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs who tended a blissful garden located near the Atlas Mountains in North Africa or in Libya. The garden contained a tree that produced golden apples. According to later Greek poets and historians, the garden's location was also placed in southern Spain. By Roman times, the garden of the Hesperides had become a poetic convention rather than a religious site.

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    In Greek mythology, the Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world,

    located near the neighbourhood of Cyrene or Benghazi in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean. The nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus. According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the "Song of Geryon", and the Greek geographer Strabo in his book Geographika (volume III), the garden of the Hesperides is located inTartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula. By Ancient Roman times, the garden of the Hesperides had lost its archaic place in religion and had dwindled to a poetic convention, in which form it was revived in Renaissance poetry, to refer both to the garden and to the nymphs that dwelt there

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