Decorate your wall with a Plate from Archaic period 5th-6th century B.C.It has Orange background. Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces (or in some versions, rapes) Leda.According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeukes, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Cstor and Clytemnistra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.Zeus took the form of a swan and seduced Leda, on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.