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Heracles in the Garden of the Hesperides, fragment of a relief, early 2nd century. Roman, after the Greek original of the late 5th century BC. According to Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs who tended a garden in the far west of the world and were guardians of miraculous golden apples. Stealing the apples was one of the Labours of Heacles. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg.