arctanthrope comments on Tadé Styka - Leda and the Swan (1913)

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[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (4 children)

it's a scene from Greek mythology and the subject of several paintings. the swan is Zeus in disguise. Leda later laid an egg, and from it hatched Helen of Troy

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[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Thanks! I remembered the Greek gods kinda banging everyone and often as non humans but completely missed that this was Helen's lineage.

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[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Yeah it was just a joke about artists being kinky :)

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[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

and Greeks more than them

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[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Yep and never in any of my classics courses did I go "I should spend tens of hours creating my rendition of them fucking."

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