Leto’s care turned her children into skilled personalities

Leto provided Apollo and Artemis with nurturing, food, and kindness despite the difficult upbringing they experienced. They valued their mother and did everything they could to support her. As they had become strong individuals, they would get retribution on those who had bothered their mother.

Leto and her infants used to be killed by the earth dragon Python, which Hera used to send. Apollo decided to go pursue the Python monster soon after his children were born to protect his mother. Even though Python was a defender of the ground and a child of Gaia, Apollo was a success.

Leto's problems didn't end here, though. Hera expressed the same level of hatred for Leto's offspring as she did for Leto herself as her children grew up among the gods. But Leto and her daughter Artemis have been the targets of Hera's wrath the most. When Artemis and Apollo grew older and the Python was unable to slay Leto, Hera decided to send a giant in his place.

Hera dispatched a giant by the name of Tityos. While traveling to Delphi to see her son Apollo, who was now the city's ruler, Leto was sexually assaulted by the giant. When their mother was sexually assaulted, Artemis was in Delphi visiting Apollo. To shield his mother, Apollo confronted the behemoth. Zeus inflicted the giant the same punishment as Tityos after Apollo beat the giant by firing a lightning bolt at the ground and sending him to Tartarus.