Leda

Role: foster-mother of Helen · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 33

Life events

• The account identifies Nemesis as Helen’s mother, Leda as her foster mother, and Zeus rather than Tyndareus as her father.(Book 1 · Chapter 33 · 📍 Rhamnus)
  • With: Helen Nemesis Zeus Tyndareus
  • “They say Nemesis was the mother of Helen, but Leda suckled her and brought her up: but her father the Greeks generally think was Zeus and not Tyndareus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 33

• ward: Helen (Leda fostered and raised Helen.) “but Leda suckled her and brought her up”

Book 3 · Chapter 13

• parent: Thestius “Thestius, the father of Leda”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.