leander

• Leander ist in der griechischen Mythologie ein Jüngling, der sich jede Nacht durch den Hellespont schwamm, um seine Geliebte Hero zu treffen, und dabei ertrank. Der Name steht auch allgemein für einen männlichen Vornamen.

A proper noun from Greek mythology referring to a youth who was the lover of Hero and who tragically drowned while swimming the Hellespont to visit her.

unzählbar · Eigenname

1. Mythological figureC1formal

   In Greek mythology, a young man from Abydos who swam across the Hellespont each night to visit his lover Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, until he drowned during a storm.

   Leander

   • The story of Leander and Hero is a classic tale of tragic love.
   • Leander's nightly swims across the Hellespont were legendary.
   • Poets have often written about the devotion of Leander to Hero.