Leda Leda was the queen of Sparta when Zeus approached her in the form of a swan, said to be fleeing an eagle. That same night, Leda lay with both her husband, Tyndareus, and the swan. She later laid two eggs, from which emerged two pairs of children: Helen, whose beauty would ignite the Trojan War, and Polydeuces, one of the immortal twins; and Clytemnestra and Castor, the mortal pair. The story of Leda and the Swan became one of the most enduring themes in art from the Renaissance onward, symb
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Leda Leda was the queen of Sparta when Zeus approached her in the form of a swan, said to be fleeing an eagle. That same night, Leda lay with both her husband, Tyndareus, and the swan. She later laid two eggs, from which emerged two pairs of children: Helen, whose beauty would ignite the Trojan War, and Polydeuces, one of the immortal twins; and Clytemnestra and Castor, the mortal pair. The story of Leda and the Swan became one of the most enduring themes in art from the Renaissance onward, symb
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