Etruscan Leto saving infant Apollo from Python, Temple of Apollo at Veii 510-500 BCE

"Though Jove [Zeus] loved Asterie (Asteria), daughter of Titan, she scorned him. Therefore she was transformed in to the bird ortyks, which we call a quail, and he cast her into the sea. From her an island sprang up, which was named Ortygia. This was floating. Later Latona [Leto] was borne there at Jove's command by the wind Aquilo [Boreas], at the time when the Python was pursuing her, and there, clinging to an olive, she gave birth to Apollo and Diana [Artemis]. This island later was called Delos." [N.B. Boreas probably transported Leto to Delos from Hyperborea.]"

-Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 53 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.)

Etruscan Leto saving infant Apollo from Python, Temple of Apollo at Veii 510-500 BCE. Current location: National Etruscan Museum, Rome.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latona_from_Veii.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/AEGERIVSLICIVSCONTINVVS/photos/pcb.1039370732772413/1039370232772463/?type=3&theater

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decorazione_fittile_del_santuario_di_portonaccio,_510-500_ac_ca,_acroteri,_latona_col_piccolo_apollo_in_fuga_da_pitone_01.jpg  

https://david-ancienthistory.blogspot.com/2019/10/419-400bc-in-rome.html

https://www.artsupp.com/it/villagiulia/Artworks/Latona-di-Veio/3057

https://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/769139167376924672

 

Quote:

https://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisLeto.html