#latona

[autumnthedeer5]

I would love to have a replica of this statue so if anybody knows where to get one please do tell me

[illustratus]

Latona Turning the Lycian Peasants into Frogs by Johann Georg Platzer

[evilios]

λιπαροπλόκαμος (liparoplokamos) - a poetic epithet of Leto in Pindar and Homer as one with "shiny, glossy hair/curls".

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Latona and her children, Apollo and Diana

By Michele Rocca (1630)

[hades-bat]

Look who I got to meet today.❣️🌕☀️

[mythologypaintings]

Latona and the Lycian Peasants

Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648–1729)

Date: 1692-1698

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna, Austria

Description

The Lycian peasants, also known as Latona and the Lycian peasants, is a short tale from ancient Greek and Roman mythology centered around Leto (known to the Romans as Latona), the mother of the Olympian twin gods Artemis and Apollo, who after much exhausting wandering was prohibited from drinking water from a pond in Lycia by the unhospitable people living there. The goddess then turned the peasants into frogs as punishment.

[theogonyofbeauty]

Latona.

[fleurbleedinghearts]

It's kinda funny/ironic/sad for Hera that the Romans went out of their way to villainize her (while victimizing Leto) by saying Juno sent Tityos after Latona (when in Greek myth Zeus literally hid Tityos away from Hera because he was another one of Zeus's illegitimate sons and Hera was mad about his affair)

and these are the same people who claim to be descendants of Mars through Romulus, therefore descendants of Juno.

Why would they villainize their own foremother like that? It wasn't like they also claimed Apollo & Latona were ancestors of Rome.