Goddess Leto & Her Twins Artemis & Apollo, William Henry Rinehart (1825 - 1874), American. Babies Artemis/Diana & Apollo. Detail from W.H. Rinehart’s sculpture. Hera did not allow Leto to give birth on mainland or to have a midwife. Artemis was the first to be born, she helped her mother deliver her twin brother Apollo, and so she became the goddess of childbirth.
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