As such, nymphs such as the Oceanids, were goddesses associated with … Instead of the four Hesperides mentioned above, some traditions know only of three, viz. They were the older siblings of the Astra Planeta. The main Greek Wind Gods, or the Anemoi, were the first four children of the Titans Astraeus and Eos. Hesperides, (Greek: “Daughters of Evening”) in Greek mythology, clear-voiced maidens who guarded the tree bearing golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus.

London. They were renamed in Roman mythology. He was the husband of Oreithiya and father of Chione, goddess of the snow. His sons were Argonauts and he lived in Thrace. Boreas was the North Wind and god of Winter as Kheimon. The Romans renamed him Aquilo. The Hesperides Nymphs Nymphs were minor goddesses in Greek mythology, and were often personifications of features from the physical world that the Ancient Greeks found themselves in. Different sources name different parents for the Hesperides ; they may have been daughters of the Titans Atlas and Hesperis; Erebus and Nyx ; Nyx alone; Phorcys and Ceto ; or of Hesperus . According to Hesiod, they were the daughters of Erebus and Night; in other accounts, their parents were Atlas and Hesperis John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street. Hespere, Erytheis, and Aegle, or Aegle, Arethusa, ... A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. The Hesperides in Greek mythology were the nymphs of the sunset.