In Greek mythology, Hesperis (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίς Hesperís means 'evening')[1] was (according to one account) the daughter of Hesperus, and the mother of the Hesperides by Atlas.[2][3]

The Roman mythographer Hyginus, in his Fabulae, also mentions an Hesperis among the names of the Horae.[4]

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  1. ^ Ἑσπερίς. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  2. ^ Gantz, p. 7; Diodorus Siculus, 4.26.2.
  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).

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