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Atlas gratefully agreed, but upon returning with the apples, he told Hercules he had no intention of taking the world back upon his shoulders. In order to gain the apples, however, he convinced the titan Atlas to retrieve the apples while he held up the world for him in his place. In one version told by the Perseus Project, Hercules first quested to find the garden until he finally located it. This labor, like many of the others, has multiple versions. These apples were kept in the far north and guarded by a multi-headed dragon named Ladon, as well as magical nymphs called the Hesperides. According to ' Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects,' these apples had been given to Hera as a wedding gift by Gaia and conferred immortality. His next assignment was to go and harvest the golden apples from the gardens of Hesperides. However, Hercules shot the monster with an arrow that had been poisoned with the bile of the Hydra.

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Hercules nabbed the cattle, but before he could escape, Geryon came at him in full armor. Hercules clubbed the dog to death and dispatched the herder Eurytion in the same manner.

When Hercules arrived on Erytheia, he was attacked by the two-headed dog Orthus. Helios, admiring Hercules' cheek, gifted him with a magical golden cup which he used to help him cross the seas. In frustration with the heat, the hero shot an arrow at Helios, the Sun itself. The American Journal of Educational Research describes how Hercules crossed the deserts of northern Africa. These cattle were guarded by Geryon, a three-headed monster who was the grandson of Medusa. According to ' Dragon: Fear and Power,' these gorgeous red cattle lived far in the Western Mediterranean, upon the island of Erytheia, which was viewed by the Greeks as the end of the world. For the tenth labor, Eurystheus directed Hercules to bring to him the Cattle of Geryon.

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