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HERO AND LEANDER , two lovers celebrated in antiquity. Hero, the beautiful priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos, was seen by Leander, a youth of Abydos, at the celebration of the festival of Aphrodite and Adonis. He became deeply enamoured of her; but, as her position as priestess and the opposition of her parents rendered their marriage
Hellespont . One stormy night the lamp was blown out and Leander perished. On finding his body
Statius (Theb. vi. 535) and Ovid (Her. xviii. and xix.). The beautiful little epic of Musaeus
expanded
Marlowe and G. Chapman
See M. H. Jellinek, Die Sage von Hero and Leander in der Dichtung (189o), and G. Knaack " Hero and Leander " in Festgabe fur Franz Susemihl (1898). A careful collection of materials will be found in F. Koppner, Die Sage von Hero and Leander in der Literatur and Kunst des Allertums (1894). End of Article: HERO AND LEANDER If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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