Erotopægnion Herus et Leandri - Musæus Grammaticus; Pareus, Daniel (Frankfurt Fitzer, 1627)
Musæus or Musaios Grammaticus lived around the 6th century AD
Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) 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. Leander falls in love with Hero and swims every night across the Hellespont to spend time with her. Hero lights a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.
richly engraved title-page, preface and on pages 1, 3, 18, 35, 38, 43, 151, 159, 161, 170, 185, 194, 209, 213, 217
Ex libris H. Robitsen 1769, W. S. Mackay (Trinity College Cambridge 1810) and C. Beaumont (manuscript)
bound in white vellum with white leather laces
gr. et lat. cui accesserunt alia ejusdem argumenti pœmatia, quæ singula collegit et commentariorum libro illustravit Daniel Pareus
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 17th Century (1601-1700); Poetry; Mythology; Marot, C