Amphion and Zethus fit of madness and became a nightingale. After the deaths of Amphion and Zethus, Laius returned to Thebes and became king. Compare with Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri) of Greece, and with Romulus and Remus of Rome. Plato, "Gorgias", 485e. Amphion and Zethus Amphion () and Zethus (, "Zēthos") were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus) by Antiope. They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed the city's walls. Amphion and Zethus were the sons of Antiope, who fled in shame to Sicyon after
Leda and the Swan Yeats. Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío's 1892 poem "Leda" contains an oblique description of the rape, watched over by the god Pan. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) also wrote a poem called "Leda" in 1919, suggested to be from the perspective of Leda. The description of the sexual action going on makes it seem almost beautiful, as if Leda had given her consent. In the song "Power and Glory" from Lou Reed's 1992 album "Magic and Loss", Reed recalls the experience of seeing his friend dying of cancer and makes reference to the myth, "I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs / trying