The poem of "Hero and Leander" belongs rather to erotic than to epic poetry

Its subject is the well-known Leander, who was the glory of Abydos on the other side of story of Hero, the beautiful prieste of Venus at Sestos, and the water, and who swam acro the Hellespont every evening to his fair bride, till at last he was drowned on a win ter's night, and his body cast up at the foot of Hero's tower, and died by the side of her lover. This tragedy of Hero who, in despair, cast herself down from the battlements, and Leander, the Juliet and Romeo of the Dardanelles, was of much older date than Musæus. It was well known to Ovid, Virgil, and Statius, and had become a popular love version of the story, and he has told it in a manner which tale. But Musæus is the author of the most complete will bear criticism. There is no pause in the brief narra tive from the beginning, where the lovers meet, like the hero and heroine of Heliodor us and Shakspere, on a festive occasion, down to the fatal i ue of Hero's pa ion. The poet does not, like the other erotic writers, delight in his opportunity of describing details. There is nothing to shock the most delicate reader, and the grace of the language is sometimes enhanced by a concisene of expre ion which would have done credit to a better age. The "Hero and Leander" of Musæus is the dying swan-note of Greek poetry, the last distinct echo of the old music of Hellas. Herod Antipas (her'odan'ti-pas). Son of Herod the Great, appointed by his father succe or to the throne, but invested by the Romans with only the tetrarchy of Galilee. He first married the daughter of Aretas, king of the Nabathæans, but abandoned her to marry Herodias, the wife of his half-brother Herod Philip, and was thus involved in a war with Aretas. At the instigation of his wife he had John the Baptist, who executed. Jesus called "the When his nephew Agrippa I. was made king of Judea by Caligula, Antipas, urged by his wife, repaired to Rome also to obtain a kingdom. Agrippaaccused him of treachery to Rome, and Antipas was deprived of his principality and banished died in exile. to Lyons. He was followed thither by his wife, and both Herodes, Atticus. See Atticus Herodes . Herodians (he-rō'di-anz). A party among the Jews in the time of Christ and the apostles, adherents of the family of Herod. constituted a political party rather than a religious sect. Some writers suppose that they were for the most part Sadducees in religion. The Herodians He rod i an us (he-rō-di-ā'nus), or Herodian (hero'di-an). [Gr. Ἡρωδιανός.] Born about 170 (?) A. D.: died about 240 (?) A. D. A Greek historian, resident in Italy, author of a Roman history for the period 180-238 A. D. (Commodus to Gordian). He rod i an us, Ælius. Born at Alexandria: lived at the end of the 2d century. A Greek grammarian, author of a work on prosody. Herodias (he-rō'di-as). Lived in the first half of the 1st century. The sister of Herod Agrippa I., wife of Herod Philip, and afterward second wife of Herod Antipas, half-brother of Herod Philip. See Herod Antipas . Hero dot us (he-rodʻō-tus). [Gr. Ηρόδοτος.] Born at Halicarna us, Asia Minor, probably about 484 B. c.: died at Thurii, Italy, probably about 424 B. C. A celebrated Greek historian, surnamed "the Father of History." According to the commonly accepted account of his life, gleaned chiefly from his own works, he was the son of Lyxes and Dryo, persons of means and station at Halicarna us; a isted in the expulsion of the tyrant Lygdamus from his native city; traveled in the Persian empire, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Greece; lived in Samos, and later in Athens; and settled as a colonist in Thurii (probably in 444). He wrote a history in 9 books (named after the nine Muses) of the Persian invasion of Greece down to 479 B. C. It was first printed in the Valla having appeared as early as 1474. original by Aldus Manutius in 1502, a Latin version by About fifteen manuscripts of the history of Hero dot us are known to critics; and of these, several are not of higher antiquity than the middle of the fifteenth century. One copy, in the French king's library (there are in that collection five or six), appears to belong to the twelfth century; there is one in the Vatican, and one in the Florentine library, attributed to the tenth century; one in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, formerly the