The " Hesperides" was received with chilling indifference.The impact of contact with the eastern Mediterranean was felt in very different ways within what we now call Italy. The ' Hesperides' (named from the golden apples of the classical Garden of the Daughters of the Sun) are twelve hundred little secular pieces, the 'Noble Numbers' a much less extensive series of religious lyrics. " Hesperides," Herrick refers to the Christmas sports of the time, and says: -Ĭhristmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries In the ' Hesperides' our author, with great judgment, rejects the common fable, which attributes to Hercules the slaying of the dragon and the plunder of the golden fruit. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of citiesīerenice, also called Hesperides, a town in Libya, 312 There he was reared by the lily maidens called Hesperides, till he came to his full strength, and commanded the whole army of the Aethiopes. Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sourcesįamous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls The Hesperides is a collection of more than a thousand short poems, a few of which you have already read in this chapter.įour maidens called the Hesperides, daughters of Night, were the guardians of this sacred garden, and with them watched the hundred-headed dragon, Ladon, whose father was Phorkys, the parent of many monsters. The Hesperides were the three daughters of Night, who ruled the guardian dragon. noun (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera.noun plural The garden producing the golden apples.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. 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. Same as the Hesperideæ of Sachs.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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