Usually means: Tragic love story, Hellespont swim.
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  1. Hero and Leander (poem), Hero and Leander: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. Hero and Leander: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  3. Hero and Leander, Hero and Leander: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Hero and Leander: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Hero and Leander)

noun:  the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Hērṓ; ), a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and Leander (Léandros; or Λείανδρος), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.
noun:  a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander.
noun:  a poem by Leigh Hunt written and published in 1819.


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