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Hero and Leander

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Hero and Leander

In Greek mythology, a pair of lovers. Hero, virgin priestess of Aphrodite, at Sestos on the Hellespont, fell in love at a festival with Leander on the opposite shore at Abydos. He used to swim to her at night, guided by the light, but during a storm the flame blew out and he was drowned. Seeing his body, Hero threw herself into the sea.

Their love story was portrayed by English poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe in his poem ‘Hero and Leander’ (1598).

Hero and Leander

English translation of the opera Ero e Leandro.



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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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