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The Apples of the Hesperides may have been suggested by the oranges of Spain.
See the poem "The Golden Apples," in William Morris's "Earthly Paradise."
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Two poems on the Medusa which are well worth reading are "The Doom of King Acrisius" in William Morris's "Earthly Paradise," and Shelley's lines "On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery."
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There are translations of Simonides's "Lament of Danaë" by William C. Bryant and John H. Frere.
Tennyson has a singular use of the proper noun in the "Princess" when he says:—
"Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me."