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Roman fresco: Apollo and Artemis shoot the sons of Niobe, who flee (partly on horseback) in an idyllic landscape, 1st c. BC - 1st c. AD Roman sarcophagus: Apollo and Artemis killing the 14 children of Niobe (front side). Artemis; 5 daughters with a nurse; younger son with a pedagogue; 3 other sons; Apollo. Top: dead Niobids. 160–170 Ad
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.
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 ...
Accordingly, Apollo killed Niobe's sons, and Artemis her daughters. According to some versions of the myth, among the Niobids, Chloris and her brother Amyclas were not killed because they prayed to Leto. Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo after swearing revenge. [citation needed]
If you watched Friday’s season finale of The Changeling and still have questions about the dark, odd fairytale that’s entangled Apollo’s family, rest assured: You are not alone. In the ...
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.
Amphion married Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (the Niobids) at the hands of Apollo and Artemis. Diodorus Siculus calls Chloris his daughter, [ 4 ] but the other accounts of her parentage identify her father as another Amphion, the ruler of Minyan Orchomenus (see below).
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