Lycian peasants

The Lycian peasants, also known as Latona and the Lycian peasants, is a short tale from ancient Greek and Roman mythology centered around Leto (known to the Romans as Latona), the mother of the Olympian twin gods Artemis and Apollo, who after much exhausting wandering was prohibited from drinking water from a pond in Lycia by the unhospitable people living there. The goddess then turned the peasants into frogs as punishment.

The myth's theme tackles the ancient Greek concept of xenia, or sacred hospitality, as well as Leto's special connection to the land of Lycia, a historical region in southwestern Asia Minor. The impious Lycians refuse to exercise the due hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia by the ancient Greeks, or else also called theoxenia, which refers specifically to the instances when a god, such as Leto and her infant children, is involved.

This myth is most famously known from Ovid's rendition of it in his first-century narrative poem the Metamorphoses. The myth has inspired a lot of post-classical art.