They could not marry because Hero was bound by a vow of chastity, and so every night Leander swam from Asia to Europe, guided by a lamp in Hero's tower.

hay-rō ( ancient ) and like " hero " in English ), a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Dardanelles, and Leander (, Léandros ), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.

Leander McNelly's most infamous exploit was his invasion of Las Cuevas, Mexico in order to get back stolen cattle.

Zarah Leander played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging ( in 1975 ) as well as in the original Swedish staging in Stockholm in 1978 ( here with Jan Malmsjö as Fredrik Egerman ), performing Send In The Clowns and Liaisons in both stagings.

On 5 August, Leander was despatched to Cadiz with messages for Earl St. Vincent carried by Captain Edward Berry.

He produced nearly all of The Beatles ' recordings ( later songs " Real Love " and " Free as a Bird " were produced by Jeff Lynne ) and wrote the instrumental score for the Yellow Submarine film and soundtrack album, and the string and horn ( and even some vocal ) arrangements for almost all of their songs ( with the famous exception of the Phil Spector re-production on the Let It Be album, and " She's Leaving Home ", which was arranged by Mike Leander ).

Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her.

* Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair features a puppet show of Hero and Leander in Act V, translated to London, with the Thames serving as the Hellespont between the lovers.

:" 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.

To this day, the events surrounding Leander Starr Jameson's involvement in the Jameson Raid, being somewhat out-of-character with his prior history, the rest of his life and successful later political career, remain something of an enigma to historians.

Leander went on to win the gold medal, leaving New College with the silver.

Leander Station also has access to several express bus lines, and includes a park and ride facility with 600 parking spaces.

The two British crews were lucky not to be drawn against each other, with the team from Leander Club facing New College, Oxford in the final.

Leander won by a length with a time of 6: 15.

However, HMS Leander, 50 guns, was with Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.

John Barclay Armstrong, a Texas Ranger known as " McNelly's Bulldog " since he served with the Special Force as a sergeant and Captain Leander McNelly's right hand, received permission to arrest the outlaw.

She also lost in quarterfinals of mixed doubles with Leander Paes to Belarus in a tough encounter.

After both Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to play in the men's doubles event at the 2012 Olympics with Leander Paes ; Paes demanded that he wants to partner Mirza for the mixed doubles event.

Paired for the first time with Russian Elena Bovina, he beat defending champions Martina Navratilova and Leander Paes in straight sets in an hour and nine minutes 6 – 1, 7 – 6.

Testing lasted from 1970 until 1977, with shipborne trials on a modified Leander class frigate, HMS Penelope, from 1976 onwards.

The earlier play dramatizes the story of Hero and Leander, as a love-tragedy full of poetic expression and with an insight into character motivation that predated the psychological dramas of Ibsen.

However, unlike other film stars at the time, such as Olga Chekhova, Leander neither socialized with leading party members nor took part in official Nazi party functions.

Leander had been far too extensively associated with Nazi propaganda, and as a result was shunned.

Matador is the title of a 1991 musical by Mike Leander and Edward Seago, with a book by Peter Jukes, which tells the story of the rise and fall of a fictional matador, loosely based on Manuel Benitez, El Cordobes.

Leander defended the new convert even when he went to war with his father " against his father's cruel reprisals ," the Catholic Encyclopedia puts it.

William Schallert played Leander Pomfritt, the English teacher at both the high school and the junior college ; and Jean Byron ( with whom Schallert would later co-star on The Patty Duke Show ) played mathematics teachers Ruth Adams and Professor Imogene Burkhart ( which was actually Jean Byron's real name ).

* Hero, priestess of Aphrodite in the Greek myth of Hero and Leander

Hero and Leander

It was the scene of the legend of Hero and Leander.

Hero was loved by Leander, a youth who lived at Abydos, a town on the Asian side of the channel.

" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".

Hero and Leander is a myth relating the story of Hērō (, pron.

The myth of Hero and Leander has been used extensively in literature and the arts:

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.

His story does not get as far as Leander's nocturnal swim, and the guiding lamp that gets extinguished, but ends after the two have become lovers ( Hero and Leander ( poem ));

* Sir Walter Ralegh alludes to the story, in his ' The Ocean's Love to Cynthia ', in which Hero has fallen asleep, and fails to keep alight the lamp that guides Leander on his swim ( more kindly versions, like Chapman's, have her desperately struggling to keep the lamp burning ).

: Hero and Leander are again mentioned in Act III Scene I when Valentine is tutoring the Duke of Milan on how to woo the lady from Milan.

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.

It was also briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the form of a malapropism accidentally using the names Helen and Limander in the place of Hero and Leander.

* Franz Liszt used the story of Hero and Leander as a basis for his Second Ballade, S. 171.

* Friedrich Schiller wrote the ballad Hero und Leander based on the tale.

* Diana Wynne Jones's meta-fantasy novel Fire and Hemlock makes and early reference to Hero and Leander, both to foreshadow the plot and as a namesake for the heroine's alter-ego.

* Hero and Leander, full text

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