Editing Apollo (section)

====Tityus====

[[File:Apollo Tityos Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2689.jpg|thumb|Apollo slaying [[Tityos]], Attic red-figure kylix, 460–450 BC]]

[[Tityos|Tityus]] was another giant who tried to rape Leto, either on his own accord when she was on her way to Delphi<ref name="Homer, Odyssey 11. 576">Homer, ''Odyssey'' 11. 576</ref><ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.22">Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'' 1.22</ref> or at the order of Hera.<ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 55</ref> Leto called upon on her children who instantly slew the giant. Apollo, still a young boy, shot him with his arrows.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 1. 758</ref><ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''Fall of Troy'' 3. 390</ref>  In some accounts, Artemis also joined him in protecting their mother by attacking Tityos with her arrows.<ref>Scholia on [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' 4.160 citing Pherecydes</ref><ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 10. 11. 1</ref> For this act, he was banished to Tartarus and there he was pegged to the rock floor and stretched on an area of {{convert|9|acre|m2}}, while a pair of vultures feasted daily on his liver<ref name="Homer, Odyssey 11. 576"/> or his heart.<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.22"/>

Another account recorded by Strabo says that Tityus was not a giant but a lawless man whom Apollo killed at the request of the residents.<ref name="Strabo, Geography 9. 3. 12"/>