Editing Hero and Leander (section)

===In music===
*[[Arrigo Boito]] composed an opera, ''Ero e Leandro'', but destroyed it. His libretto was later set by [[Giovanni Bottesini]] (1879) and [[Luigi Mancinelli]] (1897).
*[[Francisco Quevedo]] mentions Leander in "En crespa tempestad del oro undoso"
*[[Robert Schumann]] allegedly perceived his "In der Nacht" from [[Fantasiestücke]] as depicting the story of Hero and Leandros.
*[[Franz Grillparzer]]'s 1831 tragedy ''Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen'' is based on the tale.
*[[Friedrich Schiller]] (1759–1805) wrote the ballad ''Hero und Leander'' based on the tale.
*[[Franz Liszt]]'s [[Ballade No. 2 (Liszt)|Ballade No. 2 in B Minor]] was most likely inspired by [[Friedrich Schiller|Schiller]] and other [[Romanticism|Romanticists]] adaptation and interest in the myth. 
*[[Georg Friedrich Handel]]'s 1707 solo cantata in Italian, ''Ero e Leandro'' (HWV 150), is based on the tale.
*[[Victor Herbert]] composed a tone-poem, ''Hero and Leander'' (1901).
* [[Alfredo Catalani]] composed a tone-poem, ''Ero e Leandro'', based on the tale.
*"The Ballad of the Oysterman", by [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], has a reference to the myth. The titular oysterman comments that "[he] read it in the story-book, that, for to kiss his dear, / Leander swam the Hellespont..."
<!-- Not opera: *In Chapter XVII of "[[Two Years Before the Mast]]", [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.]] relates an anecdote of the ship's cook, who had so bonded with a sow, "Old Bess", who had stayed aboard the vessel all the first months of the voyage, that after the sow had been taken ashore in San Diego, the cook "could hardly have been more attentive, for he actually, on several nights, after dark, when he thought he would not be seen, sculled himself ashore in a boat with a bucket of nice swill, and returned like Leander from crossing the Hellespont."-->
*Jack Dean & Company<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jackdean.co.uk/shows/current-shows/hero-leander-or-i-love-you-but-everythings-under-water/|title=Jack Dean & Company|website=www.jackdean.co.uk|date=December 1, 2020}}</ref> played at the Whirligig Festival, Weston-super-Mare, September 12, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatreorchard.org.uk/events/whirligig-festival-of-outdoor-arts-2021/|title=Whirligig! Festival of Outdoor Arts 2021|website=www.theatreorchard.org.uk|access-date=2021-09-12|archive-date=2021-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125133331/https://www.theatreorchard.org.uk/events/whirligig-festival-of-outdoor-arts-2021/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Eleni Violaris's album 'Rainstriker' includes the track 'A Lover's Tale', which is from Hero's point of view as she lights the beacon and prays for Leander as he swims to her.