Latona
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Ion
Mother of Apollo, addressed and reproached in Creusa's monody for her son's treatment of Creusa.
Delos hates thee now, thy bay-tree loves thee not, whose branches sprout beside the tufted palm, where in holy throes Latona, big with child by Zeus, gave birth to thee.
thou who dost awake that tuneful lyre with seven strings till to its sweet note of music the lifeless pegs of wild ox-hom resound again, thou child of Latona, to yon 293 bright orb of thine will I publish thy reproach.
All hail, Apollo, son of Zeus and Latona!
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek goddess, sister of Asteria, used by Cotta as the starting premise for questioning the divinity of related figures
But how can you, if you think Latona a goddess, not think Hecate one, who is the daughter of Asteria, the sister of Latona?
The fourth is of Jove and of Asteria, sister of Latona, who is worshipped most at Tyre, whose daughter they say Carthage was.
Hecuba
Mother of Apollo and Artemis, whose birth at Delos is commemorated by the sacred trees described by the Chorus.
Or to an island home, sent on a voyage of misery by oars that sweep the brine, leading a wretched existence in halls where the first-created palm and the bay-tree put forth their sacred shoots for dear Latona, a memorial of her divine birth-pains?
The Rights of War and Peace
Mythological figure depicted by Ovid rebuking the Lydians for refusing common water.
Ovid introduces Latona thus addressing the Lydians, “why do you refuse water, the use of which is common?