Some say it was the goddess Nemesis, while others claim that it was the fair Leda that Zeus seduced in the form of the swan. Leda, wife of the king of Sparta Tyndareus, found or actually gave birth to an egg. The egg was colored violet, when the time was ripe a female version of Eros emerged from it, Helen of Troy. Painting: Leda and the Swan after Michelangelo (copy of a lost painting by Michelangelo), after 1530.


















