Editing Leto (section)

=== Epithets ===
[[Pindar]] calls the goddess ''Leto Chryselakatos'',<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Sixth Nemean Ode'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DN.%3Apoem%3D6 36]</ref> an [[epithet]] that was attached to her daughter Artemis as early as [[Homer]].<ref>O. Brendel, ''Römische Mitt.'' '''51''' (1936), p 60ff.</ref> "The conception of a goddess enthroned like a queen and equipped with a [[spindle (textiles)|spindle]] seems to have originated in Asiatic worship of the [[Magna Mater|Great Mother]]", O. Brendel notes, but a lucky survival of an inscribed inventory of her temple on Delos, where she was the central figures of the Delian trinity, records her [[cult image]] as sitting on a wooden throne, clothed in a linen ''[[Chiton (costume)|chiton]]'' and a linen ''[[himation]]''.<ref>O. Brendel, noting Pierre Roussel, ''Délos, colonie athénienne'' (Paris: Boccard) 1916, p 221, in "The Corbridge Lanx" ''The Journal of Roman Studies'' '''31''' (1941), pp. 100–127) p 113ff; the article is a discussion of the seated female figure he identifies as Leto on the Roman silver tray (''lanx'') at [[Alnwick Castle]].</ref>