Leda

Family: Lacedaemon · Role: mother of Castor and Pollux · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Leda) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Leda)

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• parent: Eurythemis “the daughters were Althaea, Leda, Hypermnestra”
• parent: Thestius “the daughters were Althaea, Leda, Hypermnestra”

Apollodorus, Library 1.8

• child: Castor “Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus and Leda”
• child: Pollux “Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus and Leda”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• married with Tyndareus “Tyndareus married Leda, daughter of Thestius.”
• child: Timandra “Tyndareus and Leda had daughters, to wit, Timandra, whom Echemus married”
• child: Clytaemnestra “and Castor and Clytaemnestra to Tyndareus.”
• child: Phylonoe “also another daughter Phylonoe, whom Artemis made immortal.”
• child: Helen “she bore Pollux and Helen to Zeus”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.