Leda and the Swan


Leda and the Swan*, 1895
by Jean-Léon Gérôme

By Jean-Léon Gérôme - Own work, Rauantiques, 29 March 2013, 15:40:11, Public Domain, Link

Bài trước: Pygmalion and Galatea

* Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan (thiên nga), seduces (quyến rũ) Leda. According to later Greek mythology (thần thoại Hy Lạp), Leda bore (sinh ra) Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King (vua) of Sparta. In the W. B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatized (làm cho bị thương, gây chấn thương) by what the swan has done to her mother. According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and 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 (là hiện thân của, nhân cách hóa) the disaster (tai họa, thảm họa, điều bất hạnh) that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.
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