{"id":2578,"date":"2010-06-02T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantides\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:58:25","slug":"atlantides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantides\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantides"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/strong>tlantides<\/strong>, <\/strong>in Greek mythology<\/a> was the collective name given to the seven beautiful daughters of Atlas<\/a>, the founder of Atlantis. They were also known as Pleiades or Hesperides<\/a>, after their mother Hesperis. As the Hesperides they were considered the protectors of the Seven Isles of the Blest<\/a>, which contained the Gardens of Atlas, their father. The Garden of the Hesperides was located, according to Eustatius, in the field of Atlas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hercules had to locate \u2018the golden apples\u2019 in the Garden of the Hesperides.\u00a0 Jonas Bergman<\/a> has identified the \u2018golden apples\u2019 as the oranges of Morocco<\/a>, with a site near 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 ‘golden apples.<\/p>\n

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":"

Atlantides, in Greek mythology was the collective name given to the seven beautiful daughters of Atlas, the founder of Atlantis. They were also known as Pleiades or Hesperides, after their mother Hesperis. As the Hesperides they were considered the protectors of the Seven Isles of the Blest, which contained the Gardens of Atlas, their father. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"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_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65504,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/65504"}],"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}]}}