Hesperia (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Hesperia (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερία) or Hesperie (Ἑσπερίη), 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]
