The love of Heroux and Leandro

one of the most important and much discussed love stories in ancient Greece was the love between Hera and Leander.

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the story is so old that they had it as one of the first love stories of the whole world history

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Sisto was an ancient Greek city on the Gallipoli Peninsula

on the Hellespont,

on the European coast of Asia.

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just opposite, on the Asian coast, was the city of Abydos.

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in Sesto there was a temple of the goddess Aphrodite and every year in spring they used to hold there,

the feast of Aphrodite and Adonis where believers from all over gathered

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is like saying today that the village that has the church of May - Thanasis celebrates and we gather there every May

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So in Sesto, in the temple of the goddess Aphrodite, there was a priestess, a young beautiful virgin, Hera

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when the feast began, among the crowd of believers who went was young Leander from Abydos who was on the opposite shore

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had gone swimming the beast

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the eyes of Heru and Leander crossed at the feast and

This was....

Love at first sight we say

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only it was an illicit love affair.

the young woman had to remain a virgin because she was a priestess and it was an insult to the gods to have this relationship

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but Hero was so amused with Leander that she invited him that very night to her room and ceased to be a virgin.

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the children knew that they were doing something unlawful to gods and men, but such was the attraction they felt that they decided to continue to meet in secret and whatever

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so every night Herault left a lantern lit on her Tower so that Leander could see it and not lose his bearings in the night as he went swimming

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was enough,

he met her on the opposite shore, they did what fierce lovers do

and just before dawn,

go back into the sea and come back

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we are talking about 2 miles distance (3.2km)

and another 2 miles to turn back each dawn

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Crazy Mahimi Leander

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this relationship continued throughout the summer with Leandro going every night

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but at some point winter set in,

the weather broke and so the two lovers made a date for next spring

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But the next evening the old nurse of Heruza turned on the lantern again out of habit.

Leander from opposite saw it, and thought that his beloved was calling him because it was some great need.

so

even though the weather was very bad with wind and rain, the young man dived into the sea and started swimming

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only the wind blew out the lantern at some point, Leander lost his bearings in the night and eventually drowned.

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in the morning young Herault saw the body of Leander floating dead,

he went crazy,

and not wanting her life any longer, she dived in and drowned too.

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the next day the wave washed them both away in each other's arms

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now

the ancients used history as a symbolism that you should never break the divine laws because you will be punished

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I, if you'll allow me, come to a different conclusion

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live love every day to the fullest without any prohibitions

and without restrictions