of Sparta, from the Swan. The Greek myths hesitated as to whether

Nemesis or Leda was the bride of the Swan. Homer only mentions Leda

among "the wives and daughters of mighty men," whose ghosts Odysseus

beheld in Hades: "And I saw Leda, the famous bedfellow of Tyndareus,

who bare to Tyndareus two sons, hardy of heart, Castor, tamer of

steeds, and the boxer Polydeuces." These heroes Helen, in the Iliad

(iii. 238), describes as her mother's sons. Thus, if Homer has any

distinct view on the subject, he holds that Leda is the mother of