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• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

HERO AND LEANDER  , two lovers celebrated in antiquity . See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

Hero, the beautiful priestess of See also:

• APHRODITE

Aphrodite at Sestos, was seen by Leander, a youth of See also:

• ABYDOS

Abydos, at the celebration of the festival of Aphrodite and See also:

• ADONIS

Adonis . He became deeply enamoured of her; but, as her position as priestess and the opposition of her parents rendered their See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage impossible they agreed to carry on a clandestine intercourse . Every See also:

• NIGHT

night Hero placed a See also:

• LAMP (from Gr. Xag ras, a torch, Xaµaav, to shine)

lamp in the See also:

• TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of the See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower where she dwelt by the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea, and Leander, guided by it, swam across the dangerous See also:

• HELLESPONT (i.e. " Sea of Helle "; variously named in classical literature `EXX oirov-ros, o "EXXns a6vros, Hellespontum Pelagus, and Rectum Hellesponticum)

Hellespont . One stormy night the lamp was blown out and Leander perished . On finding his See also:

• BODY

body next See also:

• MORNING

morning on the See also:

• SHORE

shore, Hero flungherself into the waves . The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story is referred to by See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil (Georg. iii . 258), See also:

• STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS (c. A.D. 45-96)

Statius (Theb. vi . 535) and See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid (Her. xviii. and xix.) . The beautiful little epic of See also:

• MUSAEUS

Musaeus has been frequently translated, and is See also:

• EXPANDED

expanded in the Hero and Leander of C . See also:

• MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564-1593)
• MARLOWE, JULIA [SARAH FRANCES FROST] (1870– )

Marlowe and G . See also:

• CHAPMAN (from O. Eng. ceap, and Mid. Eng. ,heap, to barter, cf. " Cheapside " in London, and Ger. Kaufmann)
• CHAPMAN, GEORGE (? 1559–1634)

Chapman .

It is also the subject of a ballad by See also:

• SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller and a See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama by F . See also:

• GRILLPARZER, FRANZ (1791-1872)

Grillparzer . See M . H . See also:

• JELLINEK, ADOLF (1821–1893)

Jellinek, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage von Hero and Leander in der Dichtung (189o), and G . Knaack " Hero and Leander " in Festgabe See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur See also:

• FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

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 See also:

• DES

des Allertums (1894) .