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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology A queen of Sparta and the mother, by Zeus in the form of swan, of Helen and Pollux and, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra.
- n. The satellite of Jupiter that is ninth in distance from the planet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek myth., the wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, and mother of Clytæmnestra, Helen, Castor, and Pollux. According to the latest of the many legends, the last three were the offspring of Zeus in the form of a swan, and were produced from two eggs, Helen from one, and Castor and Pollux from the other.
- n. In zoology:
- n. The typical genus of Ledidæ.
- n. A spurious genus of spiders.
- n. A genus of amphipod crustaceans.
Wiktionary
- n. Greek mythology The wife of Tyndareus and mother of Helen, Clytemnestra and Castor and Pollux hatched from eggs as a result of a seduction by Zeus in the guise of a swan
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“Leda" is still one of my all-time favorite Rickert stories because, with its multiple POVs and formats, it displays the full range of her voice and her deftness in turning from sharp humor to pathos on a dime.”
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“The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs.”
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LIT - Greco-Latin gods and heroes
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