HERO AND LEANDROS
There are two ancient cities ,facing one another, Sestos and Abydos in Çanakkale.Anadiomene ,the goddess of pure love, and her daughter Hero live in Sestos.Leandros who is famous for his courage,strongness and mercy lives in Abydos.Hero and Leandros meet at the festival of Adonis( hello spring) and fall in love with at the first glance.Leandros is fascinated with her beauty.But they can’t marry.There are two possibilities.She may be a nun or her family don’t want to their marriage.So they decide to come together in secret.Leandros swims from Abydos to Sestos every evening before sunset to reach her.Hero fires a torch everynight so that he finds his way.This method provide them to see each other.
One night, Leandros starts to swim as always but the weather is so bad that they can’t reach the shore.Furthermore,Hero can’t fire the torch because of the rain.Unfortunately, Laendros dies by hitting rockies in the sea.Hero waits her lover all night.When the sun rises,she sees his dead body on the shore and she can’t bear his misery and she throw herself into the water from the cliff.They dies but their love lives forever…
