Zeus Had Raped Nemesis In The Guise
Like all the other ancient gods, Nemesis was a lovely goddess. Many gods liked her and obeyed her. Zeus, on the other hand, was the one who was able to lure her into being raped. Zeus had countless extramarital affairs and was all-powerful. He desired relationships with both the alluring goddesses and the mortals.
In some myths, Nemesis, not the mortal queen Leda, is Helen of Troy's mother. The lost epic Cypria, which serves as the Iliad's introduction, is where this story first appears. Stasinus of Cyprus, the work's author, said that Helen was the result of Zeus raping Nemesis.
Nemesis fled in shame when Zeus followed her after falling in love with her. Zeus eventually caught her despite her attempts to flee in a number of different shapes. Zeus hunted Helen down in the form of a swan, raped her, and left her with an egg that was handed to the queen of Sparta; Helen hatched from the egg and was nurtured by Leda, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus. In a different version, Zeus yearned for Nemesis but was unable to convince her to have sex with him. As a result, he gave Aphrodite the assignment of changing into an eagle and simulating a chase while he changed into a swan. Nemesis offered the unfortunate swan sanctuary in her arms out of compassion and dozed asleep. Zeus sexually assaulted her while she was dozing, and eventually she gave birth to an egg that Hermes brought to Leda. In his Catasterismi, Eratosthenes claims that Cratinus provided this interpretation.
