Hesperides Phone Cases - iPhone and Android

The Garden of the Hesperides - Edward Burne-Jones The Hesperides were nymphs who guarded the golden apple tree in Greek mythology.

In this work of digital art, a semitransparent dragon -like a fiery furnace of hot molten glass-curls around fiercely, menacing and breathing fire, and poised to strike the warrior Hercules who dares to approach Hesperia's garden in search of the precious apples there. Multiple layers of abstract semi-transparent, translucent shapes and textures overlaid on a floral photograph create an ethereal milky-way like scene in which a starlit night merges with a garden where a larger than life profile of Hesperia's face is overlaid on the apple tree in such a way that she appears to weep. Beyond her, one of her sisters gazes in wonder at a blue flower, nebula-like in the glorious process of creation. Although vastly different in scope and mean...

One of Hesperides' golden apples (save yourself the extra labour!)

The Hesperides, The Daughters of The Evening

Atlas holding up the celestial globe.

Daughters of Hesperus - Arthur Rackham All amidst the gardens fair of Hesperus, and his daughters three that sing about the golden tree - from Comus

Herakles fought Antaeus on his way to the Garden of Hesperides as his 11th Labour. When he realized that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing or pinning him. He lifted him from the ground and crushed him to death in a bear hug.