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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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And it is the same with all the great paintings in this show - Stanley Spencer's old couple still so fixed upon each other they move about the dancehall in ungainly grapple; Marc Chagall's flying couple, airborne with elation; William Turner's spectral Hero and Leander, one waving from the misty shore, the other drowning in a fog of paint, the whole scene as evanescent as a dream one struggles to re-enter in the moment of waking from sleep.
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The huge painting by Turner, depicting the tragic parting of lovers Hero and Leander, shows that while he could master the landscape and the elements, he was almost embarrassingly bad at people.
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In the same way Hero and Leander becomes an artistic stimulus for Venus and Adonis, Edward II for Richard II, The Jew of Malta for The Merchant of Venice, the two parts of Tamburlaine for Henry V, Dido, Queen of Carthage for Antony and Cleopatra, and Doctor Faustus (in different ways) for Macbeth and The Tempest.
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