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The first to speak of Leto's children being twins is a slightly later poet, Pindar. [32] The two earliest poets, Homer and Hesiod, confirm Artemis and Apollo's status as full siblings born to Leto by Zeus, but neither explicitly makes them twins. [33] Leto holding Apollo, by Lazar Widmann
Leto, in her anger that the impious Lycians had refused to offer hospitality to a fatigued mother and her thirsty infants, transformed them all into frogs, forever doomed to swim and hop around the spring. [203] Leto with Zeus and their children, 420–410 BCE, marble, Archaeological Museum of Brauron
Tacitus wrote that Coeus was the first inhabitant of the island of Kos, which claimed to be the birthplace of his daughter Leto. [11] Coeus's name was modified from Κοῖος (Koîos) to Κῶιος (Kōios), leading to his association with the island. [12] Eventually Zeus freed the Titans, presumably including Coeus. [13]
Phoebe is a Titaness, one of the twelve (or thirteen) divine children born to Uranus and Gaia . Phoebe's consort was her brother Coeus , with whom she had two daughters, first Leto , who bore Apollo and Artemis , and then Asteria , a star goddess who bore an only daughter, Hecate . [ 7 ]
Asteria pursued by Zeus in the form of an eagle by Marco Liberi. Asteria was an inhabitant of Olympus following the Titanomachy in which the Olympians prevailed over the Titans, and like her sister Leto before her she was beloved by Zeus. [12] After Zeus had impregnated Leto, his attention was next captured by her sister Asteria. [13]
In Greek mythology, Merope / ˈ m ɛr ə p iː / [1] (Ancient Greek: Μερόπη) is one of the seven Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione.Pleione, their mother, is the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and is the protector of sailors. [2]
According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia, who was coming from the Hyperboreans in the far north, to prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was her husband Zeus. Hera was jealous of Zeus's affairs and tended to enact revenge upon the women.
Niobe was a mortal queen of Thebes who bragged of being a greater mother than the goddess Leto, due to having given birth to more children (twelve or fourteen) than Leto's two. After the offended Leto's children, Artemis and Apollo, shot down each and every one of Niobe's sons and daughters, Niobe was turned into a crying rock out of sorrow.