Pleiades (Greek mythology) Hesperides, nymphs of the morning star. After Atlas was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders, Orion began to pursue all of the Pleiades, and Zeus transformed them first into doves, and then into stars to comfort their father. The constellation of Orion is said to still pursue them across the night sky. One of the most memorable myths involving the Pleiades is the story of how these sisters literally became stars, their "catasterism". According to some versions of the tale, all seven sisters committed suicide because they were so saddened by either the fate of their father, Atlas,
Hesperides name of its nymphs: Robert Greene wrote of "The fearful Dragon... that watched the garden called Hesperides". Shakespeare inserted the comically insistent rhyme "is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides" in "Love's Labours Lost" (iv.iii) and John Milton mentioned the "ladies of the Hesperides" in "Paradise Regained" (ii.357). "Hesperides" (published 1647) was the title of a collection of pastoral and religious verse by the Royalist poet Robert Herrick. Hesperides In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες ) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening"