Hesperia (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hesperia (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερια) or Hesperie, may refer to the following characters and places:

• Hesperia, one of the Hesperides; in some versions, the daughter of the king of Mauretania, the Titan Atlas and Hesperis.
• Hesperia, also called Asterope, the wife or desired lover of Aesacus and daughter of the river Cebren^[1][2]
• Hesperia as "western land" is the ancient Greek name of Italy, also used in Latin epic poetry,^[3] in gender either a feminine noun or a neuter plural adjective used substantively, spelt the same but with different definite articles, and with the accent shifted from the penult to the antepenult.^[4] This becomes Latin Hesperia or Hesperius,^[5][6] the latter not a distinct nominal form, but simply an adjective used substantively, viz. Vergil's Aeneid VI, 6^[7]
• Hesperia, the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa, further to the west, used in both Ancient Greek and Byzantine sources^[3]

See also

See also: Hesperus and Hesperus (disambiguation)