Editing Hero and Leander (section)

==Attestations==
Scholarship indicates that the myth is attested in Ovid's ''Heroides'', in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Georgics]]'' and in poet Mousaios' (or Musaeus') epic poem.<ref>Hansen, William. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WwZpDQAAQBAJ&dq=%22atu+666%22&pg=PA522 The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths]''. Princeton University Press, 2017. p. 451. {{ISBN|9781400884674}}.</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OP1g_x9JHZoC&dq=%22hero+and+leander%22+666&pg=PA202 M. Valerii Martialis Liber Spectaculorum]''. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Kathleen M. Coleman. Oxoford: OUP, 2006. p. 202. {{ISBN|9780198144816}}.</ref>

The ''[[Double Heroides]]'' (attributed to [[Ovid]]) treats the narrative in 18 and 19, an exchange of letters between the lovers. Leander has been unable to swim across to Hero in her tower because of bad weather; her summons to him to make the effort will prove fatal to her lover.