Leto
Also known as: Latona · Family: gods · Role: goddess · First appears: BOOK I
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Leto) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Leto)
Life events
- Apollo takes Aeneas to Pergamus, where Latona and Diana heal him.(BOOK V · 📍 Pergamus)
- Xanthus reveals that Leto’s son killed Patroclus and foretells Achilles’s approaching death.(BOOK XIX)
- With: Xanthus (horse of Achilles) Achilles Patroclus
- “it was the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore that slew him as he fought among the foremost, and vouchsafed a triumph to Hector. We two can fly as swiftly as Zephyrus who they say is fleetest of all winds; nevertheless it is your doom to fall by the hand of a man and of a god.”
- The gods choose sides and enter the conflict between Trojans and Achaeans.(BOOK XX)
BOOK I
- child: Apollo “the son of Jove and Leto”
BOOK V
- with Aeneas (interaction) “Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold”
BOOK XIX
- with Hector (interaction) “it was the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore that slew him as he fought among the foremost, and vouchsafed a triumph to Hector”
BOOK XX
- enemies with Mercury (Mercury faces Leto.) “Mercury the lusty bringer of good luck faced Leto”
BOOK XXI
- child: Diana “Leto then gathered up Diana’s bow and arrows that had fallen about amid the whirling dust, and when she had got them she made all haste after her daughter.”
BOOK XXIV
- rivals with Niobe “she said Leto had borne two children only, whereas she had herself borne many”
- child: Apollo “Apollo killed the sons with arrows from his silver bow, to punish Niobe”
- child: Diana “Diana slew the daughters, because Niobe had vaunted herself against Leto”
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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.