Hespere

Role: nymph · First appears: Book IV 12

Life events

• Hespere, Eretheis, and Aegle were transformed into trees.(Book IV 12)
  • With: Eretheis Aegle
  • “Hespere became a poplar and Eretheis an elm, and Aegle a willow’s sacred trunk.”

Book IV 12

• enemies with Heracles (Aegle speaks on behalf of the transformed Hesperides.) “Surely there has come hither a mighty succour to your toils, that most accursed man, who robbed our guardian serpent of life and plucked the golden apples of the goddesses and is gone; and has left bitter grief for us.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.