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

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

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^ Ἑσπερίς. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project

^ Gantz, p. 7; Diodorus Siculus, 4.26.2.

^ 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

^ Hyginus, Fabulae 183 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 158).

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Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 303, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1935. ISBN 978-0-674-99334-1. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version by Bill Thayer.
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. Google Books.

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