god
Leto
also: Λητώ, lovely-haired Leto, daughter of Coeus
Titaness beloved of Zeus, mother of Apollo and Artemis. Hymn 3 tells how, pregnant and refused by every land in fear of the son she would bear, she found refuge at last on Delos, which she bound by oath to become Apollo's first sanctuary.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.1 Leto
Titaness beloved of Zeus, mother of Apollo and Artemis. Hymn 3 tells how, pregnant and refused by every land in fear of the son she would bear, she found refuge at last on Delos, which she bound by oath to become Apollo's first sanctuary.
- The Iliad §1.1 Leto
Titaness and mother of Apollo, invoked in Chryses's opening prayer as the god's parentage; she appears again among the gods who fight for Troy in the Book 20-21 theomachy.
- The Odyssey §6.71 Leto
Mother of Apollo and Artemis. Her quiet gladness as her daughter towers over the hunting nymphs is the heart of the simile that likens Nausicaa, taller and lovelier than her handmaids, to the goddess.