Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress

Motif

Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T83

Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Italian NovellaRotunda
GreekFox 202.
general *Von der Hagen I cxxviii
general *Fb "svömme" III 695b

Within the index

Filed under Tragic love.

1 finer motif beneath it

Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. Her brothers deceive her with false signal light

Filed beside it

Death from love Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress Lovers treacherously separated Woman mourns dead lover Lovers buried in same grave Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs

Carried in tale types

Hero and Leander · ATU 666*1 recorded variant

wander