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[[File:DTAG - Melos Stater.PNG|thumb|250px|Triskeles (which means three legs) from the reverse type of a stater of Melos / c. 600 BCE – 200 CE (Ancient Greece)]]
The banner of [[Melos]] is derived from a coin of the city, depicting the symbol of the triskeles; the name of this symbol literally means "three legs". It was sometimes used on coins, but more often on shields.

The larger meaning of this symbol is not clear, but an ancient epigram speaks of a triskeles on a shield that is supposed to frighten opponents—the bearer of this shield supposedly ran very fast.

This symbol is still in use today on the [[Sicily|Sicilian]] flag, and that of the {{Wiki|Isle of Man}}.
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[[File:DTAG - Amphora of Herakles stealing apples.PNG|thumb|250px|Herakles taking apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Scene from a black-figure amphora / 540 BCE (Archaic Greece)]]
The eleventh and twelfth labors of Herakles were tacked on at the end, since [[Eurystheas]] didn't recognize Herakles killing the [[Lernaean Hydra|Hydra]] as a labor because [[Iolaos]] helped him. Cleaning the [[Stable of Augeias|stables]] was also ignored because Herakles was paid, and it was the rivers that did the actual cleaning work.

The eleventh labor required Herakles to steal [[Apples of Eden|apples]] from the [[Garden of the Hesperides|garden]] of the [[Hesperides]], the three [[nymph]]s of the evening. The garden was situated in the west of the world, in Northern [[Africa]], and produced golden apples.

There, Herakles tricked [[Atlas]] into retrieving the apples for him. Although he proposed to hold up the heavens for a while in Atlas' stead, Herakles tricked the [[Titan]] and walked away with the fruit himself.
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