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[7] [a] Clearchus of Soli wrote that while Python was pursuing them, Leto stepped on a stone and, holding Apollo in her hands, cried ἵε παῖ (híe paî, meaning "shoot, child") to him, who was holding a bow and arrows. [10] Relief of Leto and her children running away from Python, 4th-3rd century BC, Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Leto with Artemis & Apollo Escaping from Python, Greek, 4-3rd Cent BC ... Python (mythology) ... Supported Flashpix version: 1: Color space: sRGB:
Leto was also worshipped in Crete, whether one of "certain Cretan goddesses, or Greek goddesses in their Cretan form, influenced by the Minoan goddess". [126] Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos [ 127 ] (where it is purported that she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia (also known as ...
Articles related to the goddess Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis in Greek mythology. Pages in category "Leto" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
In Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion, Mnemosyne (/ n ɪ ˈ m ɒ z ɪ n iː, n ɪ ˈ m ɒ s ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μνημοσύνη, pronounced [mnɛːmosýːnɛː]) is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus.
Coeus was an obscure figure, [4] and like most of the Titans he played no active part in Greek mythology—he appears only in lists of Titans [5] —but was primarily important for his descendants. [6] With his sister, "shining" Phoebe, Coeus fathered two daughters, Leto [7] [8] and Asteria. [9]
Leto is a goddess in Greek mythology. Leto or LETO may also refer to: As a name: Leto (surname), a list of people so named; Leto (rapper), French rapper part of the French hip hop duo PSO Thug; Leto Atreides (disambiguation), three fictional characters in Frank Herbert's Dune universe; Leto, a synonym of the genus Helogyne of the family Asteraceae