In Greek mythology, Leda was an Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen. According to Ovid, she was famed for her beautiful black hair and snowy skin. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan.
Leda and the Swan, ancient fresco from Pompeii
Leda and the Swan, 16th-century copy after the lost painting by Michelangelo
1st-century sculpture of Leda and the Swan in the Getty Villa
Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.
Ancient and modern Thermon, Aetolia
Ruins of the ancient Calydon
Dimitrios Makris (c. 1772 – 1841) a native of Aetolia was a Greek chief klepht, armatole, military commander and fighter of the 1821 Greek war of independence