Leda and the swan. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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Leda and the swan


(LEE-duh) The subject of a story from classical mythology about the rape of Leda, a queen of Sparta, by Zeus, who had taken the form of a swan. Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda.	1
‡ W. B. Yeats wrote a famous poem entitled “Leda and the Swan.”	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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