After that, Hercules met up with Busiris, another of Poseidon's sons, was captured, and was led to an altar to be a human sacrifice. Hercules defeated him in a wrestling match, lifting him off the ground and crushing him, because when Antaeus touched the earth he became stronger. Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Toledo Museum of ArtĬontinuing on his quest, Hercules was stopped by Antaeus, the son of the sea god, Poseidon, who also challenged Hercules to fight. Toledo 1961.25, Attic red figure kylix, ca. Nereus transformed himself into all kinds of shapes,trying to escape, but Hercules held tight and didn't release Nereus until he got the information he needed. After the fight was broken up by a thunderbolt, Hercules continued on to Illyria, where he seized the sea-god Nereus, who knew the garden's secret location. He was stopped by Kyknos, the son of the war god, Ares, who demanded that Hercules fight him. He journeyed through Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Asia, having adventures along the way. Hercules' first problem was that he didn't know where the garden was. Photograph courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, London London E 224, Attic red figure hydria, ca. Here the apples are on a tree, and the dragon Ladon looks more like a single-headed serpent. These apples were kept in a garden at the northern edge of the world, and they were guarded not only by a hundred-headed dragon, named Ladon, but also by the Hesperides, nymphs who were daughters of Atlas, the titan who held the sky and the earth upon his shoulders. Hera, who didn't want to see Hercules succeed, would never permit him to steal one of her prize possessions, would she? Hera had given these apples to Zeus as a wedding gift, so surely this task was impossible. Eurystheus demanded two more labors from the hero, since he did not count the hydra or the Augean stables as properly done.Įurystheus commanded Hercules to bring him golden apples which belonged to Zeus, king of the gods. Poor Hercules! After eight years and one month, after performing ten superhuman labors, he was still not off the hook. Each can inhabit that space and rejoice in the prodigious strength it holds within.Hercules' Eleventh Labor: the Apples of the Hesperides Soto evokes an intimate, universal space, as she refers us to the personal experience of all women, no matter what their status or ethnicity, from any time and place in the world. Through body language, movement and dance, artist, choreographer, playwright and performer Alicia Soto recreates the rituals of the Hesperides, drawing on aesthetic and cultural features from the Morocco’s feminine imaginary: women in the hammam, women weavers, women who gather seaweed in the ocean, illiterate women, educated women, young and old women, female artists. Located somewhere in the south of the Iberian Peninsula or in the Moroccan Atlas, this prodigious garden symbolizes the link between the two cultures. According to Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs in charge of caring for and watching over the sacred garden where the golden apples grew, fruits that conferred immortality. This is a Spanish-Moroccan project created by Alicia Soto after a process of performing research with Moroccan and Spanish women in both Casablanca and Valladolid.
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