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Leda
also: Λήδα, Λήδαν
The Spartan queen loved by Zeus as a swan; in Sappho's teasing version (fr. 166) she simply finds the egg, hidden under hyacinth flowers.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §166 Leda
The Spartan queen loved by Zeus in the form of a swan; from the egg of that union came Helen. Sappho's version, teasingly, has Leda simply find the egg under the hyacinths.