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Hero

Ἥρω

(Ἥρω), the name of three mythical personages, one a daughter of Danaus (Hyg. Fab. 170), the second a daughter of Priam (Hyg. Fab. 90), and respecting the third, see LEANDER.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.