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Definition of Hesperides

Hesperides
Hesperides Hes*per"i*des, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides. 2. The garden producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? --Shak.

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- In Gr**** mythology, the Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/; Ancient Gr****: Ἑσπερίδες, Gr**** pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light...
- Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world in Gr**** mythology. Hesperides may also refer to: Hesperides, Libya...
- the Hesperides. Arguing that the location matches most closely the description given in classical texts of Atlantis and the garden of the Hesperides, he...
- Epimetheus and Prometheus. He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island...
- Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/) (complete title, Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq.) is a book of poetry published in 1648...
- Hespérides Trough (60°21′S 50°50′W / 60.350°S 50.833°W / -60.350; -50.833) is an undersea trough named for the Spanish research vessel Hespérides....
- garden of the Hesperides. Heracles first caught the Old Man of the Sea, the shapeshifting sea god, to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located...
- ruler of Egypt. The new city was later given the name Hesperides, in reference to the Hesperides, the guardians of the mythic western paradise. The name...
- Hespérides Point (Spanish: Punta Hespérides) is a rocky point of land projecting into South Bay north-northwest of Johnsons Dock, Livingston Island in...
- Hesperides Hill (Halm Hesperides \'h&lm he-spe-'ri-des\) is a ridge linked by a saddle of elevation 52 m with the northern slopes of Atlantic Club Ridge...