Greek mythology
Leda
Queen of Sparta, Mother of Heroes
Queen of Sparta visited by Zeus in the form of a swan, mother of Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor, and Polydeuces.
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- Leda and the Swan
Queen of Sparta and wife of King Tyndareus. Visited by Zeus disguised as a swan on the banks of the Eurotas, she bore children of extraordinary fate, among them Helen, whose face launched a thousand ships, and the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeuces. The question of which children were divine and which mortal shadowed their entire lives and became inseparable from the destiny of Troy.
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