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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

leda
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In Botany it is the name of a genus of herbaceous plants in the family Acanthaceae. In Greek mythology daughter of King Testi of Etolia. She was the wife of Tindáreo of Sparta and seduced by Zeus. Name of an asteroid and also of one of Jupiter's satellites. Name of a city in Belgium in the Flanders Region. It is also a woman's name of Greek origin and means lady, lady.

  




GARCÍA ALBERTO ENRIQUE

Leda-this is the asteroid discovered by astronomer J. Chacornac on January 12, 1856-

  


Anónimo

LEDA: satellite of Jupiter.

  


Felipe Lorenzo del Río

According to Greek mythology, the King of Esparta Tindáreo wife, seduced by Zeus with the appearance of a Swan when he walked alongside the river Eurotas. The scene has been captured in the art by many artists such as Tintoretto, Leonardo, Dalí, Matisse and many others. Ruben Dario, the brilliant Nicaraguan, also it evokes: " Is the Swan, of lineage sacred, / whose Kiss, by fields of silk, / amounted up to the cima pink / of the sweet hills of Leda. "

  


Anónimo

LEDA: in the mythology Greek, daughter of Thestius and wife of the King Tyndareus of Sparta, seduced by Zeus and that took the form of Swan.

  


Anónimo

LEDA: asteroid number 38, of the series.

  



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