In Dune ( 1965 ), Duke Leto Atreides leaves Caladan for the desert planet Arrakis to assume temporary control over the melange-mining operations there.

* 1973-Tensions between Sergey Kavagoe and Alexander Kutikov ; the latter leaves the band for a hard rock outfit Visokosnoe Leto ( Leap Year Summer )

72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.

Antoninus Liberalis is not alone in hinting that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf, or that she sought out the " wolf-country " of Lycia, formerly called Tremilis, which she renamed to honour wolves that had befriended her for her denning.

Back in Arrakeen, Paul ( as the Preacher ) speaks out against Alia to the crowd outside Alia's Temple ; his words and the actions of Leto cause a riot.

His concubine is the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica ; she had been instructed by her order to bear only female children as part of their breeding program, but out of love for Leto, she bore him a son: Paul Atreides.

Paul lets these plots play out and manages to keep his Empire intact, but not without a price ; he is blinded by the explosion of a stone burner, and Chani dies giving birth to his only heirs, the twins Leto II and Ghanima.

Ready to let the final stage of his Golden Path play itself out, Leto allows Siona's plan to assassinate him to unfold.

Leto constructs his own personality out of an executive committee of his ancestors ; with all ( the important ones ) possessing him, none can possess him individually.

After dropping out briefly in the 10th grade, Leto decided to return and focus on his education at the private Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia, but graduated from Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D. C., in 1989.

Leto explained, " The California Appeals Court ruled that no service contract in California is valid after seven years, and it became known as the De Havilland Law after she used it to get out of her contract with Warner Bros ." 30 Seconds to Mars then decided to re-sign with EMI ( the parent label of Virgin ).

Leto spoke out in support of LGBT rights group Freedom Action Inclusion Rights ( FAIR ).

Fearing that Leto will guess that she is responsible for the death of their son and driven by guilt, Kailea kills her lady-in-waiting and then commits suicide by jumping out a window.

Shortly after the assassination of his father Duke Leto Atreides I and the Harkonnen / Corrino invasion of the planet Arrakis in Dune, Paul Atreides expresses a desire to put forward a Bill of Particulars to the Landsraad High Council to express his grievance and point out the laws that had been broken by this invasion.

Representatives from each major race and order of the Empire spread out beyond the known universe in fleets of no-ships, beginning the journey along Leto II's Golden Path to save mankind from destruction.

Meanwhile, Wensicia's own plot to assassinate the Atreides heirs fails, but gives Leto the opportunity to fake his own death and buy time to figure out how to overcome Alia.

The Preacher and Leto return to the capital to confront Alia who has the Preacher murdered, revealing his true identity.

With it, he escapes to a rebel sietch, where Leto II and The Preacher arrive.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in the care of the Fremen, while his sister Alia rules the universe as regent.

According to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.

Leto believes that a female army is a nurturing disciplinarian, while a male army is essentially predatory, always turns against its civilian support base in the absence of an enemy, and has " a strong tendency toward homosexual activities.

Critical response praised Leto's acting ; Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, " With hypnotic blue eyes and dirty blond hair, Leto captures the rock-star style Prefontaine affected, and he looks natural in fiery performances on the track, as well as off, where Pre affected a brash, confrontational style ", while Lisa Alspector of the Chicago Reader felt that " As the driven competitor who learns to make hubris work for him, Jared Leto gives a complex performance that suggests a deep, intriguing interior to the character even as he maintains a convincing one-dimensional facade.

Leto's performance, however, was well received by critics ; Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News wrote " Jared Leto gives such a gripping portrayal it's equally hard to look away " and continued " Leto's drawling, blotchy, creepy performance sets it apart ", while Rex Reed praised Leto saying " a galvanizing performance by an unrecognizable Jared Leto that can truly be called unforgettable.

One year after the War of Assassins, Duke Leto Atreides sponsors an assault on Ix to reclaim the planet for House Vernius, while his concubine Jessica is pregnant with his son.

Sheeana believes they may prove useful, while others fear the return of such ' mistakes ' as Leto II.

Teg, Duncan, and the unawakened ghola of Thufir Hawat set about tightening the ship's security and hunting for the traitor ; they are unsuccessful, and the unborn ghola of Duke Leto Atreides is killed while still gestating in an axlotl tank.

Sheeana believes they may prove useful, while others fear the return of such ' mistakes ' as Leto II.

Paul's twin young children, Leto II and Ghanima, sharing his prescience, have concluded that their guardian Alia has succumbed to possession by one of her ancestors and fear that a similar fate awaits them.

The seemingly immortal and omnipotent Leto is left as Emperor of the Known Universe, with Ghanima at his side.

As " Muad ' Dib ," Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, and reluctantly unleashes a bloody jihad in his name across the universe ; Paul struggles with the potential idea of seizing divine control over his newly minted empire, only to finally escape from the burden of his destiny by placing it on his sister Alia and his offspring Leto II and Ghanima.

At the same time, Chani dies in childbirth, bearing twins: a boy, Leto II, and a girl, Ghanima ( which means " spoil of war ").

She has assumed power as Holy Regent in the name of Paul's children, Leto II and Ghanima.

Alia had previously subjected herself to such an overdose late in Dune Messiah, hoping to enhance her prescient visions ; she achieves some success, but in Children of Dune, Leto II and Ghanima blame the trance for Alia's descent into Abomination.

In Children of Dune ( 1976 ), Leto II and Ghanima are uncertain of the future.

Leto weds his sister Ghanima in a political union to consolidate power ; unable to father children, he instead intends for her to take Farad ' n Corrino as a mate.

Leto is the son of Paul Atreides and his Fremen concubine Chani, and the twin brother of Ghanima.

Chani dies giving birth to Leto and his twin sister Ghanima near the end of Dune Messiah.

In Children of Dune, Leto and Ghanima are nine years old.

Like Leto and Ghanima, Alia had been pre-born, and she succumbs to the pressure under an intense dose of spice.

Alia is possessed by him, and unconsciously turns against the Atreides empire, plotting to kill Leto and Ghanima and to tear down the Imperium in a bloody civil war.

Independently, Leto and Ghanima both solve the problem of the pre-born.

Following an assassination attempt by House Corrino, Leto disappears into the desert leaving Ghanima behind.

As part of Leto's plan, Ghanima hypnotizes herself to believe that Leto had been killed ; the intense mental discipline this demands builds a safe haven in Ghanima's mind for her own personality to safely develop.

In Children of Dune, Jessica returns to Dune to inspect Paul's children, Leto II and Ghanima, to see if they can be returned to the control of the Sisterhood.

After the deaths of both Paul and Chani, a remorseful Irulan defects from the Bene Gesserit and dedicates herself to raising their infant children, twins Leto and Ghanima.

The plot ultimately fails, and Paul's heirs Leto and Ghanima rise to power at the death of the Regent, Paul's sister Alia.

Leto is rendered sterile by the process of becoming a human-sandworm hybrid, so to continue the line he reaches an agreement with the Farad ' n: Leto will marry Ghanima in a political arrangement, but Farad ' n ( who will never rule or marry Ghanima ) will father all future heirs apparent to the throne.