Marble relief plaque depicting the sexual union between Leda and the Swan, who is driven by Eros. A popular subject in antiquity, it narrates one of the many myths about the affairs and metamorphoses of Zeus. When Zeus fell in love with Leda, the wife of king Tyndareus of Sparta, he was transformed into a swan and supposedly persecuted by Venus, the goddess of love, he fell into Leda's arms for protection. Their union gave birth to Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeceus, and to Helen of Troy, who became the cause of the Trojan War. Knossos, 1st-2nd cent. AD. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion - Crete
Marble relief plaque depicting the sexual union between Leda and the Swan, who is driven by Eros. A popular subject in antiquity, it narrates one of the many myths about the affairs and metamorphoses of Zeus. When Zeus fell in love with Leda, the wife of king Tyndareus of Sparta, he was transformed into a swan and supposedly persecuted by Venus, the goddess of love, he fell into Leda's arms for protection. Their union gave birth to Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeceus, and to Helen of Troy, who became the cause of the Trojan War. Knossos, 1st-2nd cent. AD. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion - Crete, Greece
Size: 3086px × 4658px
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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