HERMI′ONE, daughter of Mars and Venus, who was turned into a serpent,
and allowed to live in the Elysian fields. There was another Hermione,
daughter of Menelaus; she was betrothed to Orestes, but was carried
away by Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.
HE′RO. A priestess of Venus, with whom Leander was so enamoured that he
swam across the Hellespont every night to visit her, but at last was
drowned; when Hero threw herself into the sea and was drowned also.
HEROES, see Valhalla.
HESPER′IDES. Three daughters of Hesperus, King of Italy. They kept in
their garden the golden apples which Juno gave Jupiter on their wedding
day. See Hercules.
HES′PERUS, brother of Atlas, was changed into the evening star.
“To the ocean now I fly,
And those happy climes that lie
Where day never shuts his eye,
Upon the broad fields of the sky;
There I suck the liquid air,
All amidst the gardens fair
Of Hesperus and his daughters three,
That sing about the golden tree.”