![]() ![]() If all this were to prove correct, it would mean that at least three Sardinian women from Capoterra were called Hesperides. In Nuraghe Antigori of Sarroch, archaeological finds have been found that confirm these hypotheses in an important way: from Wikipedia we learn that “The excavations returned various Nuragic and Mycenaean ceramics (coming from Argolis, Crete, and Cyprus) of the Mycenaean III B and Mycenaean III C types dating back respectively to the 14th-13th and 13th-12th centuries BC as evidence of the important exchanges that took place between the Nuragic and Mycenaean civilizations” 4. By Libya Herodotus meant South Sardinia and not African Libya However, this discovery has not yet been validated by scholars, nor have stratigraphies been carried out for relative verification 3. Capoterra, from Sardinian Caputerra, then in Latin “Caput Terrae”, is the “head of the Earth”, that is, the extreme known edge in antiquity (Paleolithic/Mesolithic, around 11,600 years ago approximately, to have an approximate but useful date for understanding), while the current location of Fruttidoro in Capoterra would be the legendary Garden of the Hesperides. There is a place called Fruttidoro in Capoterra, Sardinia. The oldest versions consider them daughters of Night and Erebus, while later versions make them daughters of Atlas or Tethys and Oceanus, or Zeus and Themis, or even Phorcys and Ceto 2. The Hesperides were nymphs whose genealogy varies according to different versions. The garden was located at the extreme western edge of the known world 1. It held a grove of trees that had the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. The Garden of the Hesperides is a mythical place in Greek mythology, where the Hesperides nymphs were located.
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