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In Greek mythology, a pair of lovers. Hero
was a priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos on the
Hellespont, in love with Leander on the
opposite shore at Abydos. When he was drowned
while swimming across during a storm, she
threw herself into the sea out of grief.