1) Atlantides 2) Conception of heaven 3) English poetry collection 4) Fictional sealed location 5) Garden in Morocco 6) Garden in Portugal 7) Nymph
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1) Atlantides
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In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (z; Ἑσπερίδες) are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the neighbourhood of Cyrene or Benghazi in Libya or the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean. The nymphs are said to be the daughters of Hesperus. Acc...
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[poetry] Hesperides is a book of poetry published in 1648 by Robert Herrick. This collection of 1200 of his lyrical poems was published under his direction. His reputation rests on the book, which includes `To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time`. ...
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• (n. pl.) The garden producing the golden apples. • (n. pl.) 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 Atl...
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(from the article `Herrick, Robert`) Herrick became well known as a poet about 1620–30; many manuscript commonplace books from that time contain his poems. The only book that Herrick ...
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in Greek mythology, clear-voiced maidens who guarded the tree bearing golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus. According to ... [1 related articles]
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the three nymphs who guard Hesperia, a fabled western garden that serves as Hera?s orchard. Its apples are guarded by the serpent Ladon.
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In Greek mythology, the maidens who tended a tree bearing the golden apples of immortality, a wedding present to the goddess
Hera from Gaia, mother of the Earth. Their garden was guarded by Ladon, a...
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1. 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. ... Synonym: Atlantides. ... 2. The garden producing the golden apples. 'It not love...
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Hes·per'i·des noun plural [ Latin , from Greek ....]
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 ...
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The Herperides were nymphs who looked after the golden apples that belonged to Hera
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In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were certain nymphs who lived in gardens, of rather uncertain locality, as guardians of the golden apples that grew there, being assisted in the charge by a dragon. Hesiod places the gardens in an island of the ocean far to the west. It was the eleventh labour of Heracles to kill the dragon and bring the golden ap...
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[
n] - (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera
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Hesperides Daughters of the Titan Atlas and Hesperis. They were the guardians of a tree with golden apples, a wedding present for Hera by Gaea. The Hesperides were perhapes called Aegle, Erythia, Vesta, and Arethusa and they lived in the land of the west, where their gardens provided eternal happiness for its visitors. This country was also called...
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