Editing Hero and Leander (section)

===In folkloristics===
In [[folkloristics]], the myth of lovers Hero and Leander becomes the [[Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index|Aarne-Thompson-Uther]] tale type ATU 666*, "Hero and Leander".<ref>[[Antti Aarne|Aarne, Antti]]; [[Stith Thompson|Thompson, Stith]]. ''The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography''. Folklore Fellows Communications FFC no. 184. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1961. p. 233.</ref><ref>[[Hans-Jörg Uther|Uther, Hans-Jörg]]. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eBfXAAAAMAAJ&q=Leander The types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography, based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson]''. Volume 1: Animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, and realistic tales, with an introduction. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia-Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004. p. 364. {{ISBN|9789514109560}}.</ref>

Variants of the tale are also attested in Japan, where they appear as a local legends. In Hiroko Ikeda's index of Japanese folktales, the type is known as ''Tarai-bune no Momoyo Gayoi''.<ref>Hiroko Ikeda. ''A Type and Motif Index of Japanese Folk-Literature''. Folklore Fellows Communications Vol. 209. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 1971. p. 161.</ref> Philologist and folklorist [[Julian Krzyżanowski]], establisher of the Polish Folktale Catalogue according to the international index, located variants of the lovers' myth in Poland, which he classified as T 667, "Hero i Leander" ("Hero and Leander").<ref>Krzyżanowski, Julian. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=pHAiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22667%22+hero Polska bajka ludowa w ukìadzie systematycznym: Wa̜tki 1–999]''. Wydawn. Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1962. pp. 206, 308.</ref>

The myth seems to have inspired a literary version by Italian author [[Giovanni Francesco Straparola]] in his work ''[[The Facetious Nights of Straparola]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442699533.12|title=Straparola, Giovan Francesco, and W.G. Waters. "Malgherita Spolatina's Death at Sea: FIORDIANA." In: ''The Pleasant Nights''. Volume 2. Edited by Donald Beecher. University of Toronto Press, 2012. 93–100.|year=2012 |doi=10.3138/9781442699533 |jstor=10.3138/9781442699533 |isbn=9781442699533 |editor-last1=Beecher |editor-first1=Don }}</ref>

[[Child ballad]] number 216 can be read as a variant.