Postby Asso » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:34 am
Oh!, "Hero and Leander". Love and death, but above all LOVE! One of the most attractive myths of the Greek mythology.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Hero and Leander is a Greek myth, relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, and Leander (Leandros, or Λέανδρος), a young man from Abydos on the other side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp 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. This routine lasted through the warm summer. 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 the tower in grief and died as well.
If you want to read some of the most attractive pages on their wonderful story, you should read Marlowe.
http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/british-authors/16th-century/christopher-marlowe/hero-and-leander/
And if you want to look at one of the most attractive images of Hero, you should look at this painting by Frederic Leighton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Leightonhero.jpg
Well yes. I continue to write. And on Fanfiction.Net, for those who want, it is possible to cast a glance at my latest efforts. We arrived to
The Ears of the Elves, chapter Forty-four
And here is the beginning of the whole story.
But, I must say, you could also find something else on Fanfiction.net written by me. If you want.
