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Hesperus
In Greek mythology, Hesperus ( ''Hesperos'') is the Evening Star, the planet Venus in the evening. He is the son of the dawn goddess Eos (Roman Aurora) and is the half-brother of her other son, Phosphorus (also called Eosphorus; the "Morning Star"). Hesperus' Roman equivalent is Vesper (cf. "evening", "supper", "evening star", "west"〔''Collins Latin Dictionary plus Grammar'', p. 231. ISBN 0-06-053690-X.〕). Hesperus' father was Cephalus, a mortal, while Phosphorus' was the star god Astraios.
== Variant names ==
Hesperus is the personification of the "evening star", the planet Venus in the evening. His name is sometimes conflated with the names for his brother, the personification of the planet as the "morning star" Eosphorus (Greek , "bearer of dawn") or Phosphorus (Ancient Greek: , "bearer of light", often translated as "Lucifer" in Latin), since they are all personifications of the same planet Venus. "Heosphoros" in the Greek Septuagint and "Lucifer" in Jerome's Latin Vulgate were used to translate the Hebrew "Helel" (Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one), "son of Shahar (god) (Dawn)" in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14:12.
When named thus by the ancient Greeks, it was thought that Eosphorus (Venus in the morning) and Hesperos (Venus in the evening) were two different celestial objects. The Greeks later accepted the Babylonian view that the two were the same, and the Babylonian identification of the planets with the great gods, and dedicated the "wandering star" (planet) to Aphrodite (Roman Venus), as the equivalent of Ishtar.
Eosphorus/Hesperus was said to be the father of Ceyx〔Hyginus, ''Fabulae'', 65〕 and Daedalion.〔Ovid. ''Metamorphoses''. Book XI, 295.〕 In some sources, he is also said to be the father of the Hesperides.〔Servius. ad Aen. 4,484.〕
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