Hesperis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hesperis (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίς, romanized: Hesperís, lit. 'evening'[1]) may refer to two separate characters:

  • Hesperis, daughter of Hesperus, the brother of Atlas in a rare account. She was given in marriage by her father to her uncle whom she bore seven beautiful daughters called Hesperides after her and Atlantides after their father. Their land, Hesperitis, was named after Hesperis by her husband Atlas.[2][3]
  • Hesperis, one of the Horae.[4]

See also

  • Hesperium

Notes

  1. ^ Ἑσπερίς. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  2. ^ Gantz, p. 7; Diodorus Siculus, 4.27.2.
  3. ^ Honoratus, Servius (1881). Georgius Thilo (ed.). In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen [Commentaries on the Poems of Vergil Which Were Reported of Servius the Grammarian]. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.Perseus Project A.4.484
  4. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 183 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 158).

References

  • Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 303, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1935. ISBN 978-0-674-99334-1. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version by Bill Thayer.
  • Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
  • Smith, Scott R., and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6. Google Books.
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