{"id":2578,"date":"2010-06-02T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantides\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:24:33","slug":"atlantides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantides\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>tlantides<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/greek-mythology\/\">Greek mythology<\/a> was the collective name given to the daughters of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlas\/\">Atlas<\/a>, the first king of Atlantis. The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pleiades-the\/\">Pleiades<\/a> were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hesperides\/\">Hesperides<\/a>, although sometimes associated with the Pleiades, were a separate group and were considered the protectors\u00a0of the Seven <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/isles-of-the-blest\/\">Isles of the Blest<\/a>, which contained the Gardens of Atlas, their father. The Garden of the Hesperides was located, according to Eustatius, in <em>the field of Atlas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hercules had to locate \u2018the golden apples\u2019 in the Garden of the Hesperides.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bergman-jonas\/\">Jonas Bergman<\/a> has identified the \u2018golden apples\u2019 as the oranges of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/morocco-revised\/\">Morocco<\/a>, with a site near <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lixus\/\">Lixus<\/a> providing the Garden of the Hesperides. The late Michael H\u00fcbner, who was also an advocate for a Moroccan site for Atlantis, proposed that the fruit of the Argan tree found in the Souss-Massa region was the &#8216;golden apples.<\/p>\n<p>If these interpretations are correct, it implies that Hercules was familiar with apples but not oranges and hence he must have come from a more northerly climate, which raises a series of other questions not pertinent to this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantides, in Greek mythology was the collective name given to the daughters of Atlas, the first king of Atlantis. The Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The Hesperides, although sometimes associated with the Pleiades, were a separate group and were considered the protectors\u00a0of the Seven Isles of the Blest, which contained the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[3606,3602,2259,1061,3605,3607,2713,2378,192,3603,3604,879,579,2273,59,331],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argan-tree","tag-atlantides","tag-atlantis","tag-atlas","tag-eustatius","tag-golden-apples","tag-greek-mythology","tag-hercules","tag-hesperides","tag-hesperis","tag-isles-of-the-blest","tag-jonas-bergman","tag-lixus","tag-michael-hubner","tag-morocco","tag-pleiades"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68889,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/68889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}