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The daughters of Nyx (Night).
The Hesperides were set to guard the Golden Apples which were a wedding gift to Hera from Gaia (Earth) upon her wedding to Zeus; the Golden Apples were the object of Herakles’ (Heracles) Eleventh Labor.
In the Argonautika, they were named as: Hespere, Eretheis and Aegle; when the Argonauts encountered the Hesperides they were mere phantoms of their previous selves as if hidden by mist or clouds; if the sisters had not showed the Argonauts where to find water they would have surely perished in the deserts of Libya.
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