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    In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες, Greek pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light...
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  • Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world in Greek mythology. Hesperides may also refer to: Hesperides, Libya...
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    Epimetheus and Prometheus. He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island...
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    Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/) (complete title, Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq.) is a book of poetry published in 1648...
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    garden of the Hesperides. Heracles first caught the Old Man of the Sea, the shapeshifting sea god, to learn where the Garden of the Hesperides was located...
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    the Hesperides. Arguing that the location matches most closely the description given in classical texts of Atlantis and the garden of the Hesperides, he...
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    Benghazi (redirect from Hesperides, Libya)
    ruler of Egypt. The new city was later given the name Hesperides, in reference to the Hesperides, the guardians of the mythic western paradise. The name...
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    in Greek mythology, who guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Ladon was the last of the progeny of...
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    Hespérides Point (Spanish: Punta Hespérides) is a rocky point of land projecting into South Bay north-northwest of Johnsons Dock, Livingston Island in...
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  • 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....
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  • Ourania and Aphrodite Pandemos. Hesiod puts Nyx as the mother of the Hesperides; they are alternatively daughters of Nyx and Erebus, of Atlas, of Atlas...
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  • 595 "The Flock of Geryon": August 1940 – issue 596 "The Apples of the Hesperides": September 1940 – 597 "The Capture of Cerberus" was rejected by Strand...
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  • The Graveyard of the Hesperides is a 2016 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the fourth book in the Flavia Albia (Falco: The New Generation)...
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    Hesperides Hill (Halm Hesperides \'h&lm he-spe-'ri-des\) is a ridge linked by a saddle of elevation 52 m with the northern slopes of Atlantic Club Ridge...
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    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...
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    forever tarry. First published as number 208 in the verse collection Hesperides (1648), the poem extols the notion of carpe diem, a philosophy that recognizes...
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  • Hesperides (1646) Limon Caietanus from Hesperides (1646) Aurantium dulci cortice et Sinense from Hesperides (1646) Lima eadem rotunda from Hesperides...
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    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...
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    Nueva Hespérides International Airport (IATA: STY, ICAO: SUSO) is an airport serving Salto, the capital of Salto Department in Uruguay. The airport is...
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    Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. Trinity Hall's literary society, the Hesperides, was founded in 1923 by Neil McLeod Innes with the intention of discussing...
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    century BC Personal information Parents Phorcys and Ceto Siblings The Hesperides, Sthenno, Euryale, The Graeae, Thoosa, Scylla, and Ladon Consort Poseidon...
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    Italy at the British Museum Hercules (Herakles) with the Apples of the Hesperides Roman 1st century CE from a temple at Byblos, Lebanon at the British Museum...
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    Latin words vesper and vesta and the Ancient Greek Hestia, Hesperus and Hesperides. In many regions of the world, prevalent winds change direction seasonally...
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    word melas, from which their name derives, means both apple and sheep. Hesperides, the guardians of the golden apples were regarded as this type of dryad...
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    Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides is a 1638 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It measures 246 cm by 168.5 cm and is now in the Sabauda Gallery in Turin...
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    the immortals, where sickness and death were unknown. The garden of the Hesperides in Greek mythology was also somewhat similar to the Jewish concept of...
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    Garden of the Hesperides by Albert Herter, 1898...
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    Machai Neikea Phonoi Ponos Pseudea Children of Nyx Apate Eleos Eris Geras Hesperides Hypnos The Keres The Moirai Atropos Clotho Lachesis Momus Moros Nemesis...
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    Atlas Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent. Gender Primarily male Origin Word/name Greek Meaning Name taken from Greek myth....
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  • Auloniad Aurae Crinaeae Daphnaie Dryads Eleionomae Epimeliads Hamadryads Hesperides Hyades Lampads Leimakids Leuce Limnades Meliae Melinoë Minthe Naiads Napaeae...
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