Hesperides the Isle of Juno."" The island was the seat of Geryon, who was overcome by Heracles. The Hesperides tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean. According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the "Song of Geryon", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book "Geographika" (volume III), the garden of the Hesperides is located in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula. Euesperides (in modern-day Benghazi) which was probably founded by
Ultimate fate of the universe universe would remain static. After Hubble announced his conclusion that the universe was expanding, Einstein wrote that his cosmological constant was "the greatest blunder of my life." An important parameter in fate of the universe theory is the density parameter, omega (formula_1), defined as the average matter density of the universe divided by a critical value of that density. This selects one of three possible geometries depending on whether formula_1 is equal to, less than, or greater than formula_3. These are called, respectively, the flat, open and closed universes. These three adjectives refer to the overall geometry of the universe,