Hero

On This Day In History
1810: Lord Byron swims across tumultuous Hellespont Strait in Turkey

Quote Of The Day
"This morning I swam from Setsos to Abydos, the immediate distance is not above a mile, but the current renders it hazardous, so much so, that I doubt whether Leander's conjugal powers must not have been exhausted in his passage to Paradise."
(Lord Byron in a letter to Henry Drury)

Extra: Alas, poor Leander

Hero and Leander (Nor Com'st Thou Yet)