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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.
Maria Williams-Cole is an American woman who became the first African-American in Prince George's County, Maryland to be inducted into the Daughters of the American Revolution. In July 1969, when she was thirteen years old, Williams-Cole and her grandmother recorded the names of her father's ancestors on a family tree chart purchased from ...
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.
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.
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 ...
On the day they were killed, members of the Allen family and the enslaved servants were harvesting wheat in the fields of the Allen farm, approximately 3.3 mi (5.3 km) south of the village of Argyle. As the workers gathered for the midday meal, the Native Americans attacked the farmhouse, killing all and taking their scalps.
The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century (U Press of Florida, 2020) online review; Sara Wallace Goodman (2020) "'Good American citizens': a text-as-data analysis of citizenship manuals for immigrants, 1921–1996." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; DAR-related. Hunter, Ann Arnold.
Lynn Forney Young is an American civil leader and clubwoman. She was the 43rd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving from 2013 to 2016.As the organization's president general, she oversaw a $4 million restoration of DAR Constitution Hall, led the organization in setting a Guinness World Record for "most letters to military personnel collected in one month" with ...