Crossword clues for atlantides
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atlantides \At*lan"ti*des\, n. pl. [L. See Atlantes.] The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.
Hesperides \Hes*per"i*des\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
(Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
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The garden producing the golden apples.
It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
--Shak.
Usage examples of "atlantides".
The region thus ingulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, beyond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greece were waged.
The region thus engulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, beyond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged.
Hugh Joyce believed that all Jungian archetypes derived from the original race of Atlantides who bad perished millennia before.