In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Leto is a goddess and the mother of Apollo and Artemis. She is the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and the sister of Asteria.
Leto with the infants Apollo and Artemis, by Francesco Pozzi (1824)
Relief from the 2nd century, staging the marriage of Zeus and Leto, Hierapolis Museum.
Statue of Leto in the Yelagin Palace, St. Petersburg.
Leto with her children, by William Henry Rinehart
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the kouros. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.
Apollo Belvedere, c. 120–140 CE
Apollo, God of Light, Eloquence, Poetry and the Fine Arts with Urania, Muse of Astronomy (1798) by Charles Meynier
Apollo, fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD
Apollo sculpture, Palazzo Giusti Verona, Mannerist art with typical contrapposto
