While mourning this figure, Athenian women planted small gardens on their rooftops, which were symbols of impermanence and waste because the plants withered and died quickly. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this figure whose mother Myrrha was the namesake of a plant. This figure’s blood mixed with tears to make the anemone flower.
ANSWER: Adonis
[10e] Golden apples grow in the garden named for these nymphs, which Heracles visits in his eleventh labor.
ANSWER: Hesperides (“heh-SPARE-id-eez”)
[10h] This mythical king’s neatly-tended gardens lie near a sacred grove of Athena and bear fruit all year round from a four-acre orchard. Queen Arete (“uh-REE-tee”) gives hospitality to a man who arrives in this king’s palace shrouded in mist.
ANSWER: Alcinous (“al-SIN-oh-us”)
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