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Next to Demeter, Leto was the most celebrated mother of the ancient world. [26] Hesiod describes Leto as "dark-gowned" [27] and the Orphic Hymn 35 to Leto describes her as "dark-veiled" and "goddess who gave birth to twins" ( θεός διδυματόκος ). [28] In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, she is described as golden-haired.
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Leto, in classical mythology, a Titan, the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, and mother of the god Apollo and the goddess Artemis. The chief places of her legend were Delos and Delphi. Leto, pregnant by Zeus, sought a place of refuge to be delivered.
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In one famous myth, Leto’s fury was roused by Niobe, a queen of Thebes. Niobe had fourteen children—seven boys and seven girls. One day, she made the fatal mistake of bragging that she was more blessed than even Leto herself, for while she had fourteen beautiful children, Leto had only two. Leto, of course, could not let this insult go unpunished a...
At another time, a monster named Tityus tried to rape the beautiful Leto. Though there are different versions of what happened next, all agree that Tityus’ act of hubris did not end well for him. In what is probably the most familiar tradition, Tityus was killed by one or both of Leto’s children. But there were other accounts in which Tityus was ki...
In another myth, Leto stopped to rest somewhere in Lycia soon after giving birth to her twins. But a group of ignorant herdsmen prevented her from drinking from a spring. Leto promptly punished them by turning them into frogs.
Leto was a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and a lover of Zeus, who fathered the twins Apollo and Artemis with her. She was chased by Hera across the earth and gave birth to her children on the island of Delos, where they became important deities.
Learn about Leto, a Titan goddess who gave birth to Artemis and Apollo despite Hera's wrath. Discover her origins, adventures, and role in the Olympian pantheon.
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In Greek mythology Leto was one of the female Titans, a bride of Zeus, and the mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis. She was the goddess of motherhood and, with her children, a protectress of the young.
Nov 15, 2019 · Leto is a Titan and the mother of the gods Apollo and Artemis in Greek mythology. Leto's twin children were the result of an amorous encounter with Zeus, and to avoid his wife Hera's wrath, the Titaness was obliged to give birth on the remote and barren island of Delos.
