Hero and Leander

Their secret love affair lasts through a warm summer, but when winter and its rougher weather looms, they agree to part for the season and resume in the spring.He attempts to go to her, but halfway through his swim, a strong winter wind blows out Hero's light, and Leander loses his way and drowns.Leander has been unable to swim across to Hero in her tower because of bad weather; her summons to him to make the effort will prove fatal to her lover.The myth of Hero and Leander has been used extensively in literature and the arts: Both robbed of air, we both lie in one ground, Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drowned."Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'
The Last Watch of Hero by Frederic Leighton , depicting Hero anxiously waiting for Leander during the storm
Hero laments the dead Leander by Jan van den Hoecke
Hero mourns the dead Leander by Gillis Backereel
Hero and Leander by Peter Paul Rubens , c. 1604
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