#Hero and Leander

[makemeimmortalwithahug]

with every passing minute that I think about it, I feel absolutely gut-punched by how well edwin and charles' story fits the myth of hero and leander. It's like an alternate universe where they didn't make it but in a different than Orpheus and Eurydice

will be explained at a later date, I need to process

[lionofchaeronea]

Hero (aka Hero Lighting the Beacon for Leander), Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

[weirdlookindog]

Theodor von Holst (1810-1844) - Hero and Leander, 1833

"She went up to the tower, and straining out To search the seas, downwards, and round about, She saw, at last,—she saw her lord indeed Floating, and washed about, like a vile weed; On which such strength of passion and dismay Seized her, and such an impotence to stay. That from the turret, like a stricken dove. With fluttering arms she leaped, and joined her drowned love" - Leigh Hunt

[crissydissy]

Would you like me to hold your hand?

[storyofmorewhoa]

Achilles and the body of Patroclus (1885) by Nikolai Ge Apollo and Hyachintus (1769) by Nicolas-René Jollain The Suicides of Pyramus and Thisbe by Guido Reni Hero and Leander (1828) by William Etty Orpheus and Euridice by (1872) George Frederic Watts Cefalo and Procris (1879) by Marques de Oliveira Tristán and Isolda (1910) Rogelio de Egusquiza Dante and Virgil Meeting the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo (1851) by Ary Scheffer The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet (1855) by Frederick Leighton The Burial of Atala (1808) by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussey-Trioson

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Honorary Mentions !

This is a bracket made with rejected submissions. Here they're legit.

Explanations here

Round 3 Poll 3

Explanations underneath

Leander was originally submitted because of the name's similarity with oleander

Camilla's a name meaning "young ceremony attendant". It's close phonologically to camellia but unrelated etymologically

[justineportraits]

Pierre Delorme Hero and Leander ca. 1825

[stigmatam4rtyr]

Hero and Leander (1829, oil on canvas) | William Etty

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Lancelot Speed - Hero and Leander, 1891.

[thelastofthebookworms]

This poll has a limited number of options to offer so if your faves aren't there, put them in the tags !

More polls about comics, art, literature, Shakespeare, etc in my pinned post.

[redstrewn]

[Christopher Marlowe's] Leander is possessed of an effeminate beauty which serves to make ‘the rudest peasants melt’ and men in general to swear ‘he was a maid in man’s attire’.

The words describing Leander and what he goes through in it are a little more odd. Using sort feminine attributes at first before starting descriptions with the more 'traditional' man attributes.

- kovardc

Even myth Leander is babygirl

[mydaylight]

The Last Watch of Hero by Frederic Leighton (1880) / Hero laments the dead Leander by Jan van den Hoecke ( c.1636/37) / Hero and Leander by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1604) / Hero and Leander by William Etty (1829).

[withasideofshakespeare]

Crying in the library about the fact that Marlowe died halfway through writing Hero and Leander.

“Desunt nonnulla”

YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME, NORTON EDITORS!!!

[movietonight]

Marlowe's Hero and Leander being unfinished just adds so much to it

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Honorary Mentions !

This is a bracket made with rejected submissions. Here they're legit.

Explanations here

Round 2 Part 1 Poll 5

Explanations underneath

Leander was originally submitted because of the name's similarity with oleander

One of you wanted to submit Gandalf's big naturals. I promised them they'd get a spot.