Hesione
A daughter of Laodemon, king of Troy. It was her fate to be exposed to a sea monster, to whom the Trojans presented yearly a young girl to appease the resentment of Apollo and Neptune, whom Laodemon had offended. Hercules undertook to rescue her, and, attacking the monster just as he was about to devour her, killed him with his club.
Hesperia (The Western Land). The name given by the Greek poets to Italy, because it lay west of Greece. In imitation of them the Roman poets gave the name Hesperia to Spain.