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- not comparablePertaining to the Hesperides or the garden that they tended.
The Hesperidian tree bearing golden apples was a type of that in Eden.
1942, University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic studies5 more examples
He considered, also, that a rather more general distribution of the Hesperidian fruit, if it could be peaceably effected, would be desirable.
1843, “Punch's Labours of Hercules”, in Punch, volume 5, page 73The body of the poem is the "Song of the Three Sisters," the Hesperidian maidens, which is introduced by a blank verse prologue that fuses historical allusion with myth and somewhat casually places the verses that follow in the familiar framework of vision poetry.
1952, Publications of the Modern Language Association of AmericaIt is known concerning Hercules, that he performed his last labour in the Hesperidian region, and Olympiodorus, in his Commentary on the Gorgias of Plato, informs us what we are to understand by this.
1960, Mary Anne Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, page 233The evidence seems to indicate that the symbolism of the Hesperidian Garden had a special meaning for the Medici Popes.
1970, Hans Henrik Brummer, The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere, page 238Further substantiation for this correlation is to be found in Ridgely Torrence's Hesperidian poetry, to which Frost referred in an epigraph to "A Passing Glimpse."
1974, Jac Tharpe, Frost: Centennial Essays - Volume 1, page 219
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