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Hesperides
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (; ) was the collective name for the nymphs of the evening and golden light of sunset, and who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean.〔A confusion of the Garden of the Hesperides with an equally idyllic Arcadia is a modern one, conflating Sir Philip Sidney's ''Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'' and Robert Herrick's ''Hesperides'': both are viewed by Renaissance poets as oases of bliss, but they were not connected by the Greeks. The development of ''Arcadia'' as an imagined setting for pastoral is the contribution of Theocritus to Hellenistic culture: see Arcadia (utopia).〕
According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the "Song of Geryon", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book ''Geographika'' (volume III), the garden of the Hesperides is located in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.
By Ancient Roman times, the garden of the Hesperides had lost its archaic place in religion and had dwindled to a poetic convention, in which form it was revived in Renaissance poetry, to refer both to the garden and to the nymphs that dwelt there.
== Etymology ==
The name means ''originating from Hesperus'', the evening star Venus, equivalent to ''vesper''.
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