Tityos
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thumb|Tityos attempts to rape Leto and is stopped by Apollo and Artemis on an Attic red-figure amphora from Vulci, 510–520 BCE, by the Phintias (painter)|Phintias Painter. [[Louvre, Paris.]]
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thumb|Tityos attempts to rape Leto and is stopped by Apollo and Artemis on an Attic red-figure amphora from Vulci, 510–520 BCE, by the Phintias (painter)|Phintias Painter. [[Louvre, Paris.]]
Tityos or Tityus () is a giant from Greek mythology. The son of Zeus and the mortal Elara, Tityos tried to rape the goddess Leto, a former lover of Zeus and the mother of the twin gods Artemis and Apollo. The twins rescued their mother and punished Tityos with eternal torture in the Underworld.
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