Hesione

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Another guest arrives after many years away in the far reaches of the empire: Hesione’s sister, Lady Ariadne Utterword, played by Ms. Fraser with magnificently decadent ennui in an exquisitely calibrated comic turn — by far the sharpest on display.

From New York Times

Last year, the Musée d’Orsay purchased “Hercules Delivering Hesione,” by the German master Hans Thoma.

From Washington Post

After all, no actress plays Shakespeare's Beatrice, Shaw's Hesione or Rattigan's Hester the same way.

From The Guardian

Anyone who thinks Shaw a dry old stick should look at Hesione Hushabye's astonishing speech on the transfiguring power of love, which here passes almost unnoticed.

From The Guardian

Same as Heracles, god of all athletic games, 216-239; Prometheus delivered by, 28; Hades visited by, 65; Hesione delivered by, 152; Centaurs defeated by, 260; Argonautic expedition joined by, 266, 267; arrows of, 330; apparition of, 331; significance, 379, 389, 390, 393, 395.

From Project Gutenberg