ipernity: Leda and the Swan

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Almost everything about Helen is contested, beginning with her parentage. She is brought up as the daughter of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Leda. but most sources, at least from Homer onwards, call her the daughter of Zeus. In Euripides play ‘Helen’, she described Tyndareus as her father, but explains there’s story that Zeus took the form of a sawn fleeing from an eagle, and used this deceit to get into Leda’s bed. It raises a number of questions, even for those of us accustomed to the quirks of Greek myth. Leda is more susceptible to a seductive swan than a seductive man? That is a nihe porn category. Or perhaps it isn’t: the image of Leda and her swan / swan has been enormously popular in visual arts throughout history. Tintoretto, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo all painted versions of this story, although only copes of the latter two survive.Tintoretto’s swan looks particularly pleased with himself as Leda tries vainly to conceal hgi=r birdmance from a maid. She places a hand on the swan’s wing, as though she might be able to pass the rest of him off as some sort of elaborate cushion. Leonardo Leda looks down at the four babies (one of whom is Helen) that have emerged from a pair of cracked eggshells at her feet, and her expression seems to convey that she now rather regrets the whole feathery affair. Only Michelangelo gives the scene an intimacy which seems to have an actual sexual charge: the swan’s beck emerges from between Leda’s embracing things and they gaze at one another lovingly, mouth to beak. ~ Page 60

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