title: Hesperia (mythology)
text: # 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 Hesperus.
  * Hesperia, also called Asterope, the wife or desired lover of Aesacus and daughter of the river Cebren
  * Hesperia as "western land" is the ancient Greek name of Italy, also used in Latin epic poetry, 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. This becomes Latin Hesperia or Hesperius, the latter not a distinct nominal form, but simply an adjective used substantively, viz. Vergil's Aeneid VI, 6
  * Hesperia, the Iberian Peninsula and Northwest Africa, further to the west, used in both Ancient Greek and Byzantine sources
  
  ## Classic Literature Sources
  
  Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Hesperia:
  
  * Horace, Carminum 1. 36. 1 ff (trans. Bennett) (Roman lyric poetry C1st BC)
  * Virgil, The Aeneid 1. 530 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce) (Roman poetry C1st BC)
  * Scholiast on Virgil, The Aeneid 1. 530 (The Works of Virgil trans. Hamilton Bryce 1894 p. 172)
  * Virgil, The Aeneid 1. 569 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce)
  * Virgil, Aeneid 2. 780 ff (trans. Fairclough)
  * Virgil, The Aeneid 3. 163 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce)
  * Virgil, The Aeneid 3. 185 ff
  * Virgil, Aeneid 3. 503 ff (trans. Fairclough)
  * Scholiast on Virgil, Aeneid 3. 503 (Virgil trans. Fairclough 1938 Vol 1 p. 589)
  * Virgil, The Aeneid 4. 272 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce)
  * Virgil, Aeneid 7. 1 ff (trans. Fairclough)
  * Virgil, Aeneid 7. 41 ff
  * Virgil, Aeneid 7. 540 ff
  * Virgil, The Aeneid 8. 148 ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce)
  * Virgil, Aeneid 12. 360 ff (trans. Fairclough)
  * Propertius, Elegies, 4. 1a. 86 ff (trans. Butler) (Latin poetry C1st BC)
  * Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 760-795 (end) (trans. Miller) (Roman epic poetry C1st BC to C1st AD)
  * Seneca, Medea 725 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD
  * Seneca, Hippolytus 568 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD
  * Statius, Thebaid 10. 1 (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
  * Petronius, Satyricon 154 ff (trans. Heseltine) (Roman satire C1st AD)
  * Silius, Punica 4. 815 ff (trans. Duff) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD)
  * Silius, Punica 17. 219 ff
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 29 (trans. Riley) (Roman poetry C1st AD)
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 224
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 404
  * Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 404 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 24)
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 505
  * Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 1. 505 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 35)
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 293
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 410
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 433
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 441
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 534
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 608
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 614
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 2. 734
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 3. 66
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 38
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 266
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 329
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 534
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 691
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 703
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 6. 322
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 7. 403
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 7. 871
  * Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 7. 871 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 292)
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 8. 189
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 8. 285
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 8. 351
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 8. 768
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 8. 826
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 10. 62
  * Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 10. 62 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 387)
  * Lucan, Pharsalia 10. 450
  * Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
  * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 1. 530 (trans. Thilo & Hagen) (Greek commentary C4th AD to 5th AD)
  * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 2. 780
  * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 3. 501. 15 ff
  * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 4. 36
  * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 7. 3
  * Servius, Servii Grammatici In Vergilii Aeneidos 8. 328
  