An ancient city in Phrygia, Asia Minor, northeast of Troy, on the southern shore of the Hellespont (modern Dardanelles) at its narrowest point opposite ancient Sestos; home of the lover Leander. Nightly he swam the channel to visit Hero on the opposite shore where she was a priestess to Aphrodite. One night Hero’s signal lamp blew out during a storm, and Leander drowned. In her grief Hero threw herself into the sea.
The settlement lies near the site of an Athenian naval victory over the Spartans in 411 B.C.
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