Hero and Leander

Lovers celebrated in Greek legend. Hero, a virgin priestess of Aphrodite, was seen by Leander of Abydos during a festival, and the two fell in love. He swam the Hellespont nightly to be with her, guided by a light from her tower. One stormy night the lamp was extinguished, and Leander drowned. When Hero saw his body on the shore, she threw herself from the tower into the sea. The story was told by Ovid and was treated by Christopher Marlowe in his play Hero and Leander and by Lord Byron in The Bride of Abydos.

Hero and Leander

latter drowns, former kills herself in grief. [Gk. Lit.: Hero and Leander; Br. Lit.: Hero and Leander]

See : Love, Tragic

Hero and Leander

love affair on the Hellespont tragically ends with latter’s drowning. [Gk. Lit.: Hero and Leander: Br. Lit.: Hero and Leander]

See : Lovers, Famous

Pure Steig, however, are the besotted Narcissus lifting an insouciant foot as he delights in his own reflection, or the poignantly somber illustrations of such tragic lovers as Hero and Leander.

A Gift from Zeus: Sixteen Favorite Myths by LONG, JOANNA RUDGE / The Horn Book Magazine

Maslen draws on pedagogical institutions, rhetorical tracts, and translations to sketch out ways in which the Metamorphoses was available to political interpretation in the sixteenth century; John Roe takes a complementary approach to two erotic poems, Hero and Leander and Venus and Adonis.

Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems and ... by James, Heather / Renaissance Quarterly

Constructing Christopher Marlowe includes two excellent essays on Hero and Leander but is also tied to the Shakespearean dramatic model, since the inclusion of one poem in a study devoted to "the drama" is largely a variation on the familiar template.

Writing under Influences: A Study of Christopher Marlowe. (Reviews) by Cheney, Patrick / Renaissance Quarterly

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