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A personal story in the experience: I Love Mythology
H ERO & LEANDER

Hero & Leander met and fell in love....

Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite, and with her religious calling she was forbidden to marry her love.

They kept their affair a secret and Leander swam the channel to Hero each night guided by a light she kept in her tower..... one night her light blew out in a storm and Leander who was swimming to her lost his sense of direction and drowned.

When his body washed ashore, Hero threw herself from her tower and died.

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Posted May 19th, 2007 at 2:09AM
Mythology brings about some of the most "beautiful" stories sometimes! :D
     
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