Theatre· Dresden
Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen
**Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen** is a tragic drama by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer (1831), based on the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. It tells the story of the doomed lovers Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, and Leander, who swims the Hellespont each night to be with her—culminating in Leander's death when his guiding lamp is extinguished and Hero's suicide in grief.