Tyndareus Leda Zeus

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• Tyndareus Leda Zeus
• Agamemnon - Klytemnestra Helen - Menelaus

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Leda and Zeus as a Swan
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Coreggio, Leda with the Swan (1531-32)
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• Cesare da Sesto,
• Leda and the Swan (16th c.)
• From lost original by DaVinci

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Anonymous, copy of a lost original by Michelangelo
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• Salvador Dali, Leda Atomica
• (1949)

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• Penelope Klytemnestra Helen
• Preserves her oikos destroys her oikos destroys
  her oikos AND
• entire nations
• The Model Wife The Bad Wife The Angel of
  Death
• Loyal, faithful Disloyal, deceitful Disloyal,
  yet absolutely
• irresistible

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Nemesis and the Dioskouroi (ca 330-310 BCE)
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The Destructive power of eros in fifth-century
Athenian Tragedy

• Medea kills her own children to spite her
  husband (Jason) who no longer returns her love.
• Deianeira (unknowingly) kills her husband
  (Herakles) in her attempt to regain his love.
• Phaedra kills herself and causes the death of
  her stepson (Hippolytos) out of desperate
  passion.