Editing Hesperis (mythology)

{{see also|Hesperis}}In [[Greek mythology]], '''Hesperis''' ({{langx|grc|Ἑσπερίς|translit=Hesperís|lit=evening}}<ref name="lsj1">{{LSJ|(esperi/s|Ἑσπερίς|ref}}</ref>) may refer to two separate characters: 

* Hesperis, daughter of [[Hesperus]], the brother of [[Atlas (mythology)|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 [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Atlantides]] after their father. Their land, [[Hesperia (mythology)|Hesperitis]],  was named after Hesperis by her husband Atlas.<ref>Gantz, p. 7; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#27.2 4.27.2].</ref><ref name="mshcomaen">{{cite book|author-first=Servius|author-last=Honoratus|author-link=Maurus Servius Honoratus|title=In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen|trans-title=Commentaries on the Poems of Vergil Which Were Reported of Servius the Grammarian|editor=Georgius Thilo|publication-place=Leipzig|publisher=B. G. Teubner|date=1881}}{{Perseus|Serv.|A.|4.484|}}</ref>

* [[Hesperis (Hora)|Hesperis]], one of the [[Horae]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 183 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 158).</ref>

==See also==
*[[Hesperium]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca Historica|Library of History]], Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58'', translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather|C. H. Oldfather]], [[Loeb Classical Library]] No. 303, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]], 1935. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99334-1}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL303/1935/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press]. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version by Bill Thayer].
* [[Timothy Gantz|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}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vczTNMWLGdoC Google Books].
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