Hero and Leander by Jean Joseph TAILLASSON, 1745 -1809, France, French, ( Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.)

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