Leto

Family: Egyptian · Role: goddess whose oracle is in Buto · First appears: Book 2 · §81–91

Life events

• Psammetichos received an oracle that vengeance would come when bronze men appeared from the sea.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 the city of Buto)
  • With: Psammetichos Apollo
  • “there was given to him the reply that vengeance would come when men of bronze appeared from the sea.”
• Leto received Apollo from Isis and concealed and protected him from Typhon.(Book 2 · §150–156 · 📍 Buto)
  • With: Apollo Demeter Typhon
  • “Leto, being one of the eight gods who came into existence first, and dwelling in the city of Buto where she has this Oracle, received Apollo from Isis as a charge and preserved him, concealing him in the island which is said now to be a floating island”

Book 2 · §81–91

• with Heracles (Leto is identified as having an oracle in Egypt.) “for there are in their land Oracles of Heracles, of Apollo, of Athene, of Artemis, of Ares, and of Zeus, and moreover that which they hold most in honour of all, namely the Oracle of Leto which is in the city of Buto.”
• with Apollo (Each is identified as having an oracle in Egypt.) “for there are in their land Oracles of Heracles, of Apollo, of Athene, of Artemis, of Ares, and of Zeus, and moreover that which they hold most in honour of all, namely the Oracle of Leto which is in the city of Buto.”
• with Athene (Each is identified as having an oracle in Egypt.) “for there are in their land Oracles of Heracles, of Apollo, of Athene, of Artemis, of Ares, and of Zeus, and moreover that which they hold most in honour of all, namely the Oracle of Leto which is in the city of Buto.”
• with Ares (Each is identified as having an oracle in Egypt.) “for there are in their land Oracles of Heracles, of Apollo, of Athene, of Artemis, of Ares, and of Zeus, and moreover that which they hold most in honour of all, namely the Oracle of Leto which is in the city of Buto.”
• with Zeus (Each is identified as having an oracle in Egypt.) “for there are in their land Oracles of Heracles, of Apollo, of Athene, of Artemis, of Ares, and of Zeus, and moreover that which they hold most in honour of all, namely the Oracle of Leto which is in the city of Buto.”

Book 2 · §150–156

• ward: Apollo “Leto became their nurse and preserver”
• ward: Artemis “Leto became their nurse and preserver”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.