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Sestos ((ギリシア語:Σηστός)) or Sestus was an ancient Greek town of the Thracian Chersonese,〔(Pseudo-Skylax, The 'Periplous' (Circumnavigation): a provisional translation, paragraphs 66, 67 )〕 the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey. Situated on the Hellespont opposite Abydos, it was the home of Hero in the legend of Hero and Leander, where according to legend she lived in a tower overlooking the sea. Sestos was an Aeolian colony, as it was founded by settlers from Lesbos. The ruins of the town are near to the modern settlement of Eceabat. In 480 BC, Xerxes' army crossed at this point on two temporary pontoon bridges later known as Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges, and most of Alexander the Great's forces went the other way here by boat in 334 BC. In 1810 Lord Byron swam from Sestos to Abydos in four hours, recreating Leander's feat, and wrote a poem thereafter.〔s:The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 3/Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos〕 This event is commemorated every year with an annual swim event that recreates the crossing.〔http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/30/escape.turkey〕 Little now remains of the ancient town of Sestos. ==Hero and Leander== Sestos is central to Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander, and is referred to in its opening lines: ''On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, ''In view and opposite two cities stood, ''Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by Neptune's might: ''The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. ''At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, ''Whom young Apollo courted for her hair. (''hight'' means 'was called') 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sestos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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