Actually, I came across reference to that, too! The other Polish word for "orange" is Pomarańcza, which comes from the Latin "Pomus aurantium," and the ancient Greek name for them was Χρυσομηλιά. So it appears that both the Greeks and the Romans called oranges "golden apples." None of the sources I was looking at mentioned the golden apples of the Hesperides, but I immediately thought of Atalanta.
In most of Northern Europe oranges are "Chinese apples" (northern German Appelsien, Dutch Sinaasappel, etc.).
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Date: 2008-05-26 02:52 pm (UTC)In most of Northern Europe oranges are "Chinese apples" (northern German Appelsien, Dutch Sinaasappel, etc.).