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Encyclopedia > Letoon

Letoon is known to have been one of the most important religious centers of the Lycian region in Anatolia, Turkey. Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ...



Important monument in Letoon include temples foundations of Leto, Artemis and Apollo. In Greek mythology Lētō (Greek: Λητώ, Lato in Dorian Greek, the hidden one) is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and in the Olympian scheme of things, Zeus is the father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis. ... The Artemis of Versailles, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic marble sculpture, now at the Louvre Museum. ... Statue of Apollo at the British Museum Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. ...


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