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Tyndareus – Leda – Zeus
Agamemnon - Klytemnestra Helen - Menelaus
Leda and Zeus as a Swan
Coreggio, Leda with the Swan (1531-32)
Cesare da Sesto,
Leda and the Swan (16th c.)
From lost original by DaVinci
Anonymous, copy of a lost original by Michelangelo
Salvador Dali, Leda Atomica
(1949)
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
Nemesis and the Dioskouroi (ca 330-310 BCE)
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.