person
Leda
also: Λήδη
Queen of Sparta, wife of Tyndareus, who bore Castor and Polydeuces to Zeus under the peaks of Taygetus.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §17.1 Leda
Queen of Sparta, wife of Tyndareus, who bore Castor and Polydeuces to Zeus under the peaks of Taygetus.
- The Odyssey §11.253 Leda, the wife of Tyndareus
Bore Castor and Polydeuces, who share death and life on alternate days, honoured almost as gods.