Hesperis (mythology)

See also: Hesperis

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]
  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).