![]() ![]() In Homer's Iliad, Helen looks down from the walls of Troy and wonders why she does not see her brothers among the Achaeans. It is also always stated that Helen is the daughter of Zeus. ![]() One consistent point is that if only one of them is immortal, it is Pollux. Castor and Pollux are sometimes both mortal, sometimes both divine. The split is almost always half mortal, half divine, although the pairings do not always reflect the children's heritage pairings. Which children are the progeny of Tyndareus the mortal king, and which are of Zeus and thus half-immortal, is not consistent among accounts, nor is which child hatched from which egg. Their consummation, on the same night as Leda lay with her husband Tyndareus, resulted in two eggs from which hatched Helen (later known as the beautiful " Helen of Troy"), Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux (also known as the Dioscuri). As a swan, Zeus fell into her arms for protection from a pursuing eagle. Leda was admired by Zeus, who seduced her in the guise of a swan. Leda with the Swan, a restored Roman copy, perhaps after an original by Timotheus ( Museo del Prado) ![]()
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