Spartan queen (4 letters)

{ Answer }

LEDA

{ Related Clues }

Castor's mother
Clytemnestra's mother
One of Jupiter's satellites
Mother of the Gemini
Mother of Helen
Mother of Pollux
A queen of Sparta
A rival of Hera
"___ and the Swan": Yeats
Swan's victim
Wife of Tyndareus
Yeats subject
Castor and Pollux's mother
Girl attacked by a "swan"
Helen of Troy's mother
Mother of Castor and Pollux
Mother of Helen and Pollux
Mother of Helen of Troy
Mother of Pollux and Castor
Spartan queen of myth
Woman in a Shelley poem
Woman in a Yeats poem
Helen's mother, in Greek myth
A swan was her swain
Whom Zeus visited as a swan
Heroine of Zona Gale's "Faint Perfume"
Title partner of "the Swan" in a Yeats poem

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castor, castors, clytemnestra, clytemnestras, helen, helens, huxley, leda, mother, myth, poem, pollux, polluxs, queen, spartan, swan, swans, troy, troys, yeats, yeatss

{ Notes }

The answer LEDA is seen frequently, appearing about once every 90 puzzles.

{ Definition }

LEDA as a noun:

1. (Greek mythology) a queen of Sparta who was raped by Zeus who had taken the form of a swan; Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda