Fires in the night and disappointed loves
The myth of Hero and Leandro and the oral tale ATU 666
Keywords:
Myth, Hero and Leander, legend, tale, song, Ovid, MuseoAbstract
This article follows the old literary cliché of the light that guides (or tries to guide) by night separated lovers who aspire to unite, and who usually end up dying tragically. Modern oral legends recorded in Spain, tales of the ATU 666* type, classical myths (Ovid, Museo), later Spanish recreations (by Truchado, Bocángel, Góngora, Quevedo, Pardo Bazán) and lyrical songs are analysed. The conclusion is that orality, which lived at the root of the myth and which continues to be the channel for the latest recreations of the topic, is the paradigm in which all these discourses reach the highest levels of variation and creativity.
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