Leda and the Swan
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 Leda and the Swan, a 16th century copy by Peter Paul Rubens, after a lost painting by Michelangelo (National Gallery, London) |
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduced, or raped, Leda in the form of a swan. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In the W.B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatised by what the swan has done to her mother (see below). According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.
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| Ovid Illustrated - large site from the University ... Ovid Illustrated - large site from the University of Virginia, where many depictions of Leda and the Swan from Renaissance and later editions of the Metamorphoses will (eventually) be found. etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/notes.html - Web |
| Yeats' "Leda and the Swan": an image's coming of a... Yeats' "Leda and the Swan": an image's coming of age d-sites.net/english/yeats.htm - Web |
| Greek vase from the Getty Greek vase from the Getty www.getty.edu/.../artObjectDetails?artobj=14945&handle=li - Web |
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| Samuelson blog with thoughts and pictures Samuelson blog with thoughts and pictures www.samuelson.co.uk/blog/?p=407 - Web |
| 16th century Venetian painting by Il Padovanino 16th century Venetian painting by Il Padovanino www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?id=2341&musid=112 - Web |
| Alternative detail view of the Getty vase Alternative detail view of the Getty vase www.theoi.com/Gallery/K1.11.html - Web |
| Roman statue from the Getty Roman statue from the Getty www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=7639 - Web |
| Baroque bronze from the Getty Baroque bronze from the Getty www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=113647 - Web |
| Sculpture c 1900 Sculpture c 1900 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/.../ledaandtheswan.asp - Web |
| Leda and the swan – Bronze miniature Leda and the swan – Bronze miniature www.zeinalov.com/htm/e/erotic/leda_01.htm - Web |
| Leda and the Swan, by Tintoretto, from the Galleri... Leda and the Swan, by Tintoretto, from the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; explore other depictions of Leda and the Swan and compare to similar themes beckydaroff.com/stories/details.php?recordID=186 - Web |
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| Jai Vilas Palace Museum, Gwalior, India Jai Vilas Palace Museum, Gwalior, India www.shunya.net/Pictures/NorthIndia/Gwalior/LedaSwan.jpg - Web |
