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# Young Leander, who lived on the Trojan shore of the Hellespont, fell in love with Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite from Sestos on the opposite bank
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- Published: 2026-01-30T05:31:42.000Z
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- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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By night Hero would light a fire on her tower so that her beloved could swim the strait and meet her.

But one night the wind put out the flame, and Leander drowned. Seeing Leander's body, Hero threw herself from her tower into the sea.

**Peter Paul Rubens, Hero and Leander, 1694**