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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
Coeus, later overcome with madness, broke free from his bonds and attempted to escape his imprisonment, but was repelled by Cerberus. [ 10 ] Tacitus wrote that Coeus was the first inhabitant of the island of Kos , which claimed to be the birthplace of his daughter Leto. [ 11 ]
Once grown, Tityos attempted to rape Leto at the behest of Hera. He was slain by Leto's protective children Artemis and Apollo. [3] In some accounts, Tityus was instead slain by the thunderbolt of his father Zeus. [4] As punishment, he was stretched out in Tartarus and tortured by two vultures who fed on his liver, which grew back every night. [4]
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. [11] After Zeus had impregnated Leto, his attention was next captured by her sister Asteria. [12]
The daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Her symbols include the Moon, horse, deer, hound, she-bear, snake, cypress tree, and bow and arrow. Ares: Mars: God of war, violence, bloodshed and manly virtues. The son of Zeus and Hera, all the other gods despised him except Aphrodite. His Latin name, Mars, gave us the word "martial".
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 ]
Leto changed herself into a she-wolf before giving birth. This is given as the reason why Homer describes Apollo as the "wolf-born god". [146] [147] Libanius wrote that neither land nor visible islands would receive Leto, but by the will of Zeus Delos then became visible, and thus received Leto and the children. [148]
Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.His name is cognate with the first syllable of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.