Classical scholars, from several centuries before Christ, situate the Garden of Hesperydes in the Canary Islands. In their writing this place is described as a collection of island paradises where the Hesperydes lived, the three daughters of Atlas. Atlas was the giant condemned to hold up the sky after being defeated by Zeus. Ladon, a fierce, hundred-headed, fire-breathing dragon, who ancient Greeks probably imagined after descriptions of the Teide erupting, guarded the garden. .../