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virgin—convince Hero, and they make love. Their secret love affair lasts through a warm summer, but when winter and its rougher weather looms, they agree to part for the season and resume in the spring. One stormy winter night, however, Leander sees the torch at the top of Hero's tower. He attempts to go to her, but halfway through his swim, a strong winter wind blows out Hero's light, and Leander loses his way and drowns. When Hero sees his dead body, she throws herself off the tower to join him in death. Their bodies wash up on shore together, locked in embrace, and are then subsequently buried in a lover's tomb.
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relates an anecdote of the ship's cook, who had so bonded with a sow, "Old Bess", who had stayed aboard the vessel all the first months of the voyage, that after the sow had been taken ashore in San Diego, the cook "could hardly have been more attentive, for he actually, on several nights, after
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Leander falls in love with Hero and swims every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her. Hero lights a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way. Leander's soft words and charms—and his argument that Aphrodite, as the goddess of love and sex, would scorn the worship of a
687: 585:–1618) alludes to the story, in his "The Ocean's Love to Cynthia", in which Hero has fallen asleep, and fails to keep alight the lamp that guides Leander on his swim (more kindly versions, like Chapman's, have her desperately struggling to keep the lamp burning). 726:, has a reference to the myth in Jean Valjean, Book V. Referring to the reaction of a duchess when she heard of the fate of her lover who died by drowning in the quicksand in Paris' sewers, Hugo comments that "Hero refuses to wash Leander's corpse." 500:
made it one of his first publications (c. 1493) after he set up his famous printing press in Venice (his humanistic aim was to make Ancient Greek Literature available to scholars). Musaeus's poem had early translations into European languages by
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completed Marlowe's poem after Marlowe's death; this version was often reprinted in the first half of the 17th century, with editions in 1598 (Linley); 1600 and 1606 (Flasket); 1609, 1613, 1617, 1622 (Blount); 1629 (Hawkins); and 1637
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painted "Hero, Having Thrown herself from the Tower at the Sight of Leander Drowned, Dies on his Body" in 1829. He later said he considered the painting the "finest of my fine pictures".
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Band 6: Gott und Teufel auf Wanderschaft – Hyltén-Cavallius. Edited by Rudolf Wilhelm Brednich; Hermann Bausinger; Wolfgang Brückner; Lutz Röhrich; Rudolf Schenda. De Gruyter, 2016 .
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reflects at the end of his completion of Marlowe's version that the dead lovers had the honour of being "the first that ever poet sung". Chapman's 1616 translation has the title
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dark, when he thought he would not be seen, sculled himself ashore in a boat with a bucket of nice swill, and returned like Leander from crossing the Hellespont".
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Variants of the tale are also attested in Japan, where they appear as a local legends. In Hiroko Ikeda's index of Japanese folktales, the type is known as
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Gómez Garrido, Luis Miguel (2021). «Fuegos En La Noche Y Amores Contrariados: Entre El Mito De Hero Y Leandro Y El Cuento Oral ATU 666*». In:
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entitled "Oceans Apart". Colin describes his love for Marina as like that of Hero and Leander, Daphne reminds him of the ending of the tale.
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in Act III Scene I when Valentine is tutoring the Duke of Milan on how to woo the lady from Milan. Shakespeare also alludes to the story in
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Minchin, Elizabeth. "Mapping the Hellespont with Leander and Hero: ‘The Swimming Lover and the Nightly Bride’". In: Greta Hawes (ed.).
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The types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography, based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson
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first appeared in 1823. Significantly, she reversed the usual order of names and used it as an example of mutual constancy.
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The divine poem of Musaeus. First of all bookes. Translated according to the original, by Geo: Chapman
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Straparola, Giovan Francesco, and W.G. Waters. "Malgherita Spolatina's Death at Sea: FIORDIANA." In:
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Fuegos en la noche y amores contrariados: Entre el mito de Hero y Leandro y el cuento oral ATU 666*
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accidentally using the names Helen and Limander in the place of Hero and Leander, as well as in
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Jack Dean & Company played at the Whirligig Festival, Weston-super-Mare, September 12, 2021.
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VALENTINE: That's on some shallow story of deep love: How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont.
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VALENTINE: 'Tis true; for you are over boots in love, And yet you never swum the Hellespont.
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PROTEUS: That's a deep story of a deeper love: For he was more than over shoes in love.
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VI, 666) on the title page of his translation (Virgil's reference was to an earlier
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The Myth of Hero and Leander: The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend
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was chartered by the royal family following the decommissioning of the royal yacht
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The myth of Hero and Leander has been used extensively in literature and the arts:
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Musaeus' Hero and Leander: Introduction, Greek Text, Translation and Commentary
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LMS express steam locomotive 5690 is named "Leander", named after the ship HMS
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The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (images of Hero and Leander)
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completed a painting in Rome in 1985 inspired by the story as told by
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The myth seems to have inspired a literary version by Italian author
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Swensen, Cole. "Cy Twombly, Hero & Leandro 1981–84". In:
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Leander is also the subject of Sonnet XXIX by Spanish poet
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Myths on the Map: The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece
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Scholarship indicates that the myth is attested in Ovid's
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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths
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mentions Leander in "En crespa tempestad del oro undoso"
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Annotated text of Marlowe's poem with illustrations
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1271:. University of Michigan Press, 2011. pp. 140–143. 86: 57: 54: 1408:A Type and Motif Index of Japanese Folk-Literature 1066:The story is mentioned in the season 1 episode of 926:, the myth of lovers Hero and Leander becomes the 814:PROTEUS: Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee. 811:VALENTINE: And on a love-book pray for my success? 329:, but destroyed it. His libretto was later set by 1691:"Hero. A priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos."  1046:deeds. However the 1970s television drama series 746:In the collection of short stories and essays by 474:painted "Hero Holding the Beacon for Leander" in 1722: 1630:. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 27 May. 2019. 1628:The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander 648:' 1817 sonnet, "On an Engraved Gem of Leander." 623:Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drowned 209:and in poet Mousaios' (or Musaeus') epic poem. 1042:, or the classical definition of one who does 688:"Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos" 619:Both robbed of air, we both lie in one ground, 444:painted a picture named "Hero and Leander" in 1095:. Princeton University Press, 2017. p. 451. 353:as depicting the story of Hero and Leandros. 349:allegedly perceived his "In der Nacht" from 144:in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in 800:mentions the story in the opening scene of 1208:"Whirligig! Festival of Outdoor Arts 2021" 1052:specifically identifies its fictional HMS 963: 658:, contains a song entitled after the pair. 466:Hero and Leander (To Christopher Marlowe) 295: 280:Learn how and when to remove this message 1298: 1286:"Leander Holding the Beacon for Leander" 1114:M. Valerii Martialis Liber Spectaculorum 930:tale type ATU 666*, "Hero and Leander". 828:Hero and Leander are again mentioned in 729: 628: 540: 29: 1557:. "Hero und Leander (AaTh 666*)" . In: 1434: 1006:Numerous private ships have been named 1723: 1481: 225: 19:For the Christopher Marlowe poem, see 1710:"Leander and Hero", by L. E. 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Hero and Leander (poem)
Hero and Leander (1819 poem)

Frederic Leighton
/ˈhr/
/lˈændər/
Greek myth
Ancient Greek
[hɛː.rɔ̌ː]
priestess
Aphrodite
Venus
Sestos
Hellespont
Ancient Greek
[lé.an.dros]
Abydos
Virgil
Georgics
Double Heroides
Ovid
original research
improve it
verifying
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Abydos
Septimius Severus
Caracalla
Arrigo Boito

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