Hesperis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hesperis (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίς, Hesperís, "evening")[1] (or Hesperius) was (according to one account) the daughter of Hesperus, and the mother of the Hesperides by Atlas.[2]

See also: Hesperis

Because of her beauty she was also associated with Aphrodite.

Classical Literature Sources

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Hesperis:

  • Callimachus, Epigram 38 (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C3rd BC)
  • Scholiast on Callimachus, Epigram 38 66 (Callimachus and Lycophron Aratus Mair 1921 pp. 163, 629)
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 26. 3 ff
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 18. 20. 3 ff (trans. Oldfather) (Greek history C1st BC)
  • Pliny, Natural History 4. 12. 58 ff (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st AD)
  • Pliny, Natural History 21. 18 ff (trans. Bostock & Riley) (Roman historian C1st AD)
  • Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 183 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
  • Third Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 13 (Hercules) 5. 40 ff (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C11th AD to C13th AD)

See also

References
  1. Ἑσπερίς. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  2. 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


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