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    Hero and Leander is a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. After Marlowe's untimely death, it was completed by...
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    Hero and Leander (/ˈhiːroʊ/, /liːˈændər/) is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώ, Hērṓ; [hɛː.rɔ̌ː]), a priestess of Aphrodite...
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  • Hero and Leander is a poem by Leigh Hunt written and published in 1819. The result of three years of work, the poem tells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander...
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  • sometimes called hero, the main character in a story Hero, priestess of Aphrodite in the Greek myth of Hero and Leander and in Hero and Leander (poem) by Christopher...
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    Irish patriot." Longford wrote that Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem "If—" with Leander Starr Jameson in mind as an inspiration for the characteristics...
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    and Hermaphroditus, Narcissus, and Pygmalion. It was published about five years before Christopher Marlowe's posthumously published Hero and Leander,...
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  • Lin (anonymous) Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, The Lover's Complaint, The Phoenix and the Turtle by William...
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  • identified with the friend of Procopius whose poem (340 hexameter lines) on the story of Hero and Leander is considered the most beautiful of the age (editions...
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    George Chapman (category 16th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
    1984. ---. Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams, Hesiod's Works and Days, Musæus' Hero and Leander, Juvenal's Fifth Satire. Ed. Richard Hooper...
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  • write poems about the story of Bacchus and Ariadne along with the story of Hero and Leander. After starting on the poem about Hero and Leander during...
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    Ovid (redirect from Nux (poem))
    comprising a letter to a lover and a reply. Paris and Helen, Hero and Leander, and Acontius and Cydippe are the addressees of the paired letters. These are...
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    Achilles (category Greek mythological heroes)
    in the poem: when the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring distress to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war. The poem is in...
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    Star-crossed (category Romeo and Juliet)
    Hellespont, and Leander (Greek: Λέανδρος, Leandros), a young man from Abydos on the other side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim...
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    Epyllion (category Narrative poems)
    9.182–234: Nisus and Euryalus Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.611–724: Baucis and Philemon Coluthus, Rape of Helen Musaeus, Hero and Leander Liddell, H.G. & Scott...
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    to be any evidence to support that view. The poem on the loves of Hero and Leander is by a very much later author. The playwright Euripides in his play...
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  • Works of Boscà and Some of Garcilaso de la Vega Divided in Four Volumes). In volume three, this includes Leandro y Hero (Leander and Hero), based on an...
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  • lint-white and the throstle cock.) Song. (Every day hath its night.) The Poet. The Poet’s Mind. Nothing will die.* All things will die.* Hero to Leander. The...
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  • Robert Stapylton (category English dramatists and playwrights)
    The Tragedie of Hero and Leander, London, 1669, in five acts and in verse. ‘This is an indifferent tragedy—it is founded on the poem of Musæus—the original...
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  • (1902) Symphonic Fantasia, Op.16 (1905) Curriculum ll: Spatial Tone Poem Hero and Leander Op. 8 (1904–06, lost) Humorous Legend on Three Blind Mice (1908–09...
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    Mahiwal is a tragic love story which inverts the classical motif of Hero and Leander. The heroine Sohni, unhappily married to a man she despises, swims...
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    classical mythology; Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and the Christopher Marlowe/George Chapman Hero and Leander are examples of this kind of work. Translations...
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    Romantic symphony), 1874 Ero e Leandro, poema sinfonico ("Hero and Leander", Symphonic tone poem), Milan, 9 May 1885 "Catalani, Alfredo nell'Enciclopedia...
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  • demonstrable on Musaeus' Hero and Leander, the late antique epic by Nonnus titled Dionysiaca, Procopius[citation needed], the Byzantine novel, and Byzantine historiography...
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    Grammaticus' Hero and Leander: The Divine Poem of Musaeus: First of All Books Translated According to the Original (George Chapman, 1616); Hero & Leander (E.E...
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    Eneas» (Dido and Aeneas) and «Hero y Lleandro» (Hero and Leander) and the entremeses «L'ensalmador» (The Healer, «L'alcalde» (The Mayor) and «Los alcaldes»...
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    Yeats". Selected Poems (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2019. Brackenbury, Alison. "Poetry Hero: Rudyard Kipling"...
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  • g. Colut. 195–8, after Triph. 56–61), Musaeus’ Hero and Leander (e.g. Musae. 140, after Triph. 32) and Paul the Silentiary (e.g. Descr. Soph. 283, after...
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  • made the acquaintance of Leigh Hunt, and undertook the publication of some of his works: Foliage, Hero and Leander, and the second edition of The Story of...
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  • Adrastus (section Hero cult)
    2002. Callimachus, Musaeus, Aetia, Iambi, Hecale and Other Fragments, Hero and Leander, edited and translated by C. A. Trypanis, T. Gelzer, Cedric H...
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  • 1684, and of Suetonius's Life of Tiberius, 1689, he published: Two essays, 'Ovid de arte Amandi, or the Art of Love,' book i., and 'Hero and Leander of Musæus...
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