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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, Ancient Gr**** pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and...
- 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...
- for King Eurystheus. The Apples of the Hesperides were kept in an orchard known as the Garden of the Hesperides. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Gaia presented...
- 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....
- the Hesperides. Arguing that the location matches most closely the description given in classical texts of Atlantis and the garden of the Hesperides, he...
- BIO Hespérides (A-33), is a Spanish polar research vessel. She was built in 1990, by Bazán Shipyards of Cartagena, Spain. Hespérides is used to service...
- Epimetheus and Prometheus. He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island...
- over 2,500 poems, about half of which appear in his major work, Hesperides. Hesperides also includes the much shorter Noble Numbers, his first book of...
- Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/) (complete title, Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq.) is a book of poetry published in 1648...
- which gave rise to the mythological ****ociations of the garden of the Hesperides. The ancient city existed on a raised piece of land opposite of what is...