Leda

Leda was the beautiful wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus. Zeus, chief god of the Greeks, became infatuated with her. Having approached her in the shape of a harmless swan, he raped her.

Leda bore two famous sets of twins: Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, and Castor and Polydeuces. Some scholars claim that the two pairs of twins were hatched from two giant bird eggs…