Editing Leto (section)

=== Favour myths ===
[[File:Votive relief with Apollo, Leto and Artemis (5th cent. B.C.) at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens on 4 July 2018.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Leto with Artemis and Apollo, votive relief, fifth century BC, [[National Archaeological Museum of Athens]].]]

After [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]]'s sight was restored, he met with Artemis and Leto and joined them in hunting, where he bragged about being such a great hunter he could kill every animal on earth, angering [[Gaia]] who sent a giant scorpion to kill him.<ref name=":pseuder"/><ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''De astronomia'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.26.2 2.26.2]</ref> In one version, Orion dies after pushing Leto out of the scorpion's way. Afterwards, Leto (and Artemis) placed Orion among the stars (the constellation [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]]).<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti]]'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFive.php#anchor_Toc69367925 5.539]</ref><ref name=":pseuder">Pseudo-[[Eratosthenes]], ''[[Catasterismi|Placings Among the Stars]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=0EoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162 Orion]</ref>

[[Clinis]] was a rich Babylonian man who deeply respected Apollo. Having witnessed the [[Hyperborea]]ns sacrifice donkeys to Apollo, he attempted to do the same, only to be prohibited by the god himself under pain of death. Clinis obeyed and sent the donkeys away, but two of his sons proceeded with the sacrifice anyway. Apollo, enraged, drove the donkeys mad which then began to devour the entire family. Leto and Artemis felt sorry for Clinis, his third son and his daughter, who had done nothing to deserve such fate. Apollo allowed his mother and sister to save those three, and the goddesses changed them into birds before they could be killed by the donkeys.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#20 20]</ref>

[[File:Brauron - Relief of the Gods.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Leto with Zeus and their children, 420-410 BC, marble, [[Archaeological Museum of Brauron]].]]

In one version, Leto, along with her daughter Artemis, stood before Zeus with tearful eyes while her son Apollo pleaded with him to release [[Prometheus]] (the god who had stolen fire from the gods, give them to humans, and was subsequently chained in the [[Caucasus]] with an eagle feasting on his liver each day for punishment) from his eternal torment. Zeus, moved by Artemis and Leto's tears and Apollo's words, agreed instantly and commanded [[Heracles]] to free Prometheus.<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus (poet)|Valerius Flaccus]], ''Argonautica'' [https://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus4.html 4.60]</ref>

[[Praxilla]] wrote that [[Carneus]] was a son of Zeus and [[Europa (consort of Zeus)|Europa]], and that he was brought up by Apollo and Leto.<ref>[[Praxilla]], fr. 753 Campbell [= [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''[[Description of Greece]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D13%3Asection%3D5 3.13.5]].</ref>

When Apollo killed the [[Cyclopes#Hesiodic Cyclopes|Cyclopes]] in revenge for Zeus slaying his son [[Asclepius]], a gifted healer who could bring the dead back to life, with a thunderbolt, Zeus was about to punish Apollo by throwing him into [[Tartarus]], but Leto interceded for him, and Apollo became bondman to a mortal king named [[Admetus]] instead.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' [[wikisource:Hesiod,_the_Homeric_Hymns_and_Homerica/The_Catalogues_of_Women#213|frag 90 and 91]]</ref><ref>Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Library]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D10%3Asection%3D4 3.10.4]</ref> Apollo happily served Admetus, and enthusiastically undertook several domestic chores during his servitude with him. Leto is said to have despaired at the sight of his unkempt and disheveled locks, which had been admired by even Hera.<ref>[[Tibullus]], ''Elegies'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Tibullus.php#anchor_Toc532635320 2.3.27–28]</ref>

In [[Crete]] lived a poor couple, Galatea and Lamprus. When Galatea fell pregnant, Lamprus warned her that if the child turned out to be female, he would expose it. Galatea gave birth while Lamprus was away, and the infant proved indeed to be a girl. Galatea, fearing her husband, lied to him and told him it was a boy instead whom she named [[Leucippus (daughter of Galatea)|Leucippus]] ("white horse"). But as the years passed, Leucippus grew to be an exceptionally beautiful girl, and her true sex could no longer be concealed. Galatea fled to the temple of Leto, and prayed to the goddess to change Leucippus into an actual boy. Leto took pity in mother and child, and fulfilled Galatea's wish, changing Leucippus's sex into that of a boy's. To celebrate this, the people at [[Phaistos]] sacrificed to Leto Phytia during the [[Ecdysia]] ("stripping naked") festival in her honour.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#17 17]</ref>