Leto

Also known as: Latona · Family: Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 1

Life events

• Leto halts the Achaean army at Aulis, requiring a human sacrifice.(Sophocles, Electra — Scene 3 · 📍 Aulis)
  • “Wherefore Latona's daughter in fell wrath Stayed the army, that in quittance for the deer My sire should slay at the altar his own child.”

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 1

• child: Artemis “And Thou, O child of Leto, Artemis, Make ready now thy bow.”

Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 2

• child: Apollo “The son of Leto puts me to disgrace”

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 1

• child: Hecate “O awful daughter of Latona, Hecate”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 2

• child: Dictynna “O Dictynna, mountain daughter of Latona, to thy court, the gold-decked pinnacles of temples with fine columns, I, servant to the hallowed guardian of the key, conduct my pious virgin foot”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 3

• married with Zeus “It can not be that the consort of Jove, Latona, hath brought forth so much ignorance.”

Euripides, Hercules Distracted — Scene 4

• child: Apollo “Delian virgins at the gate Assembled, festive pæans sing, The triumphs of Latona’s son relate, And nimbly vaulting form their beauteous ring. Into thy temple, by devotion led, O Phœbus, will I raise my parting breath;”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.