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Hero

A priestess at the temple of Aphrodite (goddess of Love) in the city of Sestos and the lover of Leander.

Hero killed herself after her lover was drowned in the Hellespont, i.e. the narrow strait of water that separates Asia Minor from Greece; each night her beloved, Leander, would swim the Hellespont from the city of Abydos to Sestos guided by the light on the western shore; one cloudy night he lost his way and drowned before he could reach the safety of the beach; Hero was so distraught that she threw herself into the sea and joined Leander in his watery tomb.

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