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Using arrows, Artemis killed Niobe's daughters and Apollo killed Niobe's sons. According to some versions, at least two of Niobe's children (usually Meliboea, along with her brother Amyclas in other renderings) was spared. Their father, Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo for having sworn revenge.
In another version of the myth, the Niobids are the children of Philottus [11] and Niobe, daughter of Assaon. When Niobe dares to argue with Leto about the beauty of her children, Leto comes up with multi-stage punishment. First, Philottus is killed while hunting. Then, her father Assaon makes advances to his own daughter, which she refuses.
The Destruction of the Children of Niobe is a painting by Richard Wilson, created in 1760. It depicts the Greek myth of the murder of Niobe's daughters by the goddess Artemis and her sons by Apollo. The painting won acclaim for Wilson, who obtained many commissions from British landowners seeking classical portrayals of their estates.
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children is a 1772 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David, now in the Dallas Museum of Art. He produced it to compete for the Prix de Rome . In the Rococo style which marked his early period, it was emblematic of the conflict between David and the Académie royale de peinture et de ...
Patrick O'Daniel Unit (then Mountain View), where Routier is located. Routier's trial began on January 6, 1997, in Kerrville, Texas. [19] [20] The prosecution suggested that Routier murdered her sons because of the family's financial difficulties [21] and described Routier as "...a self-centered woman, a materialistic woman, and a woman cold enough, in fact, to murder her own two children ...
He was 1 day old when his 25-year-old father, also named John, was shot dead as he left the hospital after visiting his wife and newborn son. The assailant, eventually sentenced to a life term ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. [1] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.