Leda and the Swan is a story from classical Greece mythology.
There were times when Zeus turned himself into a swan (because who would be threatened by a swan coming up to them?) and went out raping women. This picture seems to be Zeus thinking "Is it fit for a god or should I try to find another naked chick?". I think that Yeats wrote some poems about this, but my memory is a bit hazy on that.
Anyway, there is some art out there on this subject that shows the swan doing a lot more than looking. Some of them "ew" invoking... or is that eww? I'm never sure how to spell that onomatopoeia, other than it's not the name of a female sheep (ewe).
Oh, and welcome to the library.
Goodgulf |