HERO AND LEANDER

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hero and Leander The tale is that Hero, a priestess of Venus, fell in love with Leander, who swam across the Hellespont every night to visit her. One night he was drowned, and heart-broken Hero drowned herself in the same sea. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Hero and Leander

The story of Hero and Leander is a Greek myth. Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelled in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont. Leander, a young man from Abydos, on the other side of the strait, fell in love with her, and he would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp every night at the top of her tower, to guide his way.

Succumbing to Leander's soft words, and to his argument that Aphrodite, as goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. But one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander in the sea and the breezes blew out Hero's light, and Leander lost his way, and was drowned. Hero threw herself from a tower in grief and died as well.

In literature, the story has been the subject of poems by Musaeus and Christopher Marlowe.

Commercial Usage: HERO AND LEANDER

Domain	Title
Books	The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: All Ovids Elegies, Lucans First Booke, Dido Queene of Carthage, Hero and Leander (Oxford English Texts) (reference) Callimachus, Aetia, Iambi, Hecale, and Other Fragments/Musaeus: Hero and Leander (reference) Hero and Leander (reference) Hero and Leander (Renaissance Library, No. 1) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite; Victor Herbert: Hero and Leander (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Anagrams: HERO AND LEANDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-e-h-l-n-n-o-r-r"
	-4 letters: rehardened.
	-5 letters: nonleaded, nonreader, readorned, rehandled, relearned.
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