Hero and LeanderMaddox & Gray, 1927 - 82 Seiten Hero and Leander is a mythological short epic by the famous English writer and dramatist Christopher Marlowe. When Marlowe was killed after being accused of blasphemy, he left the poem unfinished to be later completed by George Chapman. The poem follows the love story between the two Greek mythological characters Hero and Leander which was first narrated in the works of the two ancient poets Musaeus Grammaticus and Ovid. Hero is a priestess of the goddess Venus to whom she has made a vow of chastity, yet she falls in love with Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the narrow sea passage known as the Hellespont. Leander, who promises to cross the Hellespont every night to reach his beloved, gets in trouble with Neptune, the god of the seas. When he eventually comes at Hero's door, he has to make use of his guile and physical beauty to seduce his coy beloved. At this point starts Chapman's contribution to accompany the two lovers until Leander drowns in the sea on his way to Hero. Watching her lover's dead body from her high tower, the latter decides to throw herself and die by his side. |
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... stood , Sea - borderers , disjoin'd by Neptune's might : The one Abydos , the other Sestos hight . At Sestos , Hero dwelt ; Hero the fair , Whom young Apollo courted for her hair , And offer'd as a dower his burning throne , Where she ...
... stood , Sea - borderers , disjoin'd by Neptune's might : The one Abydos , the other Sestos hight . At Sestos , Hero dwelt ; Hero the fair , Whom young Apollo courted for her hair , And offer'd as a dower his burning throne , Where she ...
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... stood . Even as , when guady Nymphs pursue the chase , Wretched Ixion's shaggy - footed race , Incens'd with savage heat , gallop amain From steep Pine - bearing mountains to the plain : So ran the people forth to gaze upon her , And ...
... stood . Even as , when guady Nymphs pursue the chase , Wretched Ixion's shaggy - footed race , Incens'd with savage heat , gallop amain From steep Pine - bearing mountains to the plain : So ran the people forth to gaze upon her , And ...
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... stood , There Hero sacrificing turtle's blood , Vail'd to the ground , veiling her eyelids close , And modestly they open'd as she rose : Thence flew Love's arrow with the golden head , And thus Leander was enamoured . Stone still he stood ...
... stood , There Hero sacrificing turtle's blood , Vail'd to the ground , veiling her eyelids close , And modestly they open'd as she rose : Thence flew Love's arrow with the golden head , And thus Leander was enamoured . Stone still he stood ...
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... stood the door , he need not climb ; And she herself , before the pointed time , Had spread the board , with roses strew'd the room , And oft look'd out , and mus'd he did not come . At last he came : O , who can tell the greeting These ...
... stood the door , he need not climb ; And she herself , before the pointed time , Had spread the board , with roses strew'd the room , And oft look'd out , and mus'd he did not come . At last he came : O , who can tell the greeting These ...
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... stood , Where kingly Neptune and his train abode . The lusty god embrac'd him , call'd him “ love , ' And swore he never should return to Jove : But when he knew it was not Ganymed , For under water he was almost dead , He heav'd him up ...
... stood , Where kingly Neptune and his train abode . The lusty god embrac'd him , call'd him “ love , ' And swore he never should return to Jove : But when he knew it was not Ganymed , For under water he was almost dead , He heav'd him up ...
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Hero and Leander Professor George Chapman,Christopher Marlowe,Charles S Ricketts Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abydos Alcmane altar amorous arms beauty Beauty's bliss blood bosom breast bride bright call'd chaste cheeks CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE colours confits countenance Cupid Cyclops dear death deeds delight Destinies doth earth embrac'd enamour'd enter'd Eucharis eyes face Fates fear feast FIFTH SESTIAD figur'd fire flame flew FOURTH SESTIAD gainst gentle GEORGE CHAPMAN goddess gods golden grace grief hair hand haste hate hath heart heaven Hellespont HERO AND LEANDER holy fire honour Hymen Jove kiss kiss'd Leucote light limb lips live look look'd lov'd Love's lovers maid maidenhead Marlowe Morpheus Musaeus naked naught Neptune never night nuptial nymph poor Proteus rites robe rude sacred sacrifice SECOND SESTIAD SESTIAD The Argument Sestos shin'd shine sight soul spake star stay'd stood striv'd sweet swim Teras thee thence THIRD SESTIAD thou thought torch turn'd unto us'd Venus view'd virgin virtue vow'd vows waves Wherewith Winds wish'd wrought youth