Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Canonical name
Leto
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

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Latona

Alternative name · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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temple of Apollo at Pergamus1 observation
·Direct

Latona healed Aeneas within the mighty sanctuary.

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“There, within the mighty sanctuary, Latona and Diana healed him”
Callicolone1 observation
·Direct

Leto takes her seat with the opposing gods on the brow of Callicolone.

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“the other gods seated themselves on the brow of Callicolone round you, O Phoebus, and Mars the waster of cities”

Claims

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·Direct

Lovely Leto is named as Apollo’s mother.

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“King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne”
·Direct

Latona helps heal Aeneas and make him glorious.

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“Latona and Diana healed him and made him glorious to behold,”
·Remembered

Jove recalls lovely Leto among the goddesses for whom he had felt passion.

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“There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself—but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you.”
·Direct

Leto joins Mars and the named divinities supporting Troy.

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“Mars of gleaming helmet joined the Trojans, and with him Apollo of locks unshorn, and the archer goddess Diana, Leto, Xanthus, and laughter-loving Venus”
·Direct

Leto faces Mercury.

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“Mercury the lusty bringer of good luck faced Leto”
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Leto gathers Diana’s bow and arrows from the whirling dust and hastens after her daughter.

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“Leto then gathered up Diana’s bow and arrows that had fallen about amid the whirling dust, and when she had got them she made all haste after her daughter.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

6
·Direct
“Jove and Leto”
·Remembered
“lovely Leto”
·Reported
“the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore”
·Direct
“Leto”
·Direct
“said to Leto, ‘Leto, I shall not fight you”
·Remembered
“Leto had borne two children only”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 2

And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.