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Apollo and Artemis shoot the sons of Niobe, who flee (partly on horseback) in an idyllic landscape, fresco in Pompeii, 1st c. BC – 1st c. AD. 'Niobe' gavotte named after the 1904 farce by Harry Paulton concerning a figure of Greek mythology. The subject of Niobe and the destruction of the Niobids was part of the repertory of Attic vase ...
In Greek mythology, Niobe (/ ˈ n aɪ. ə. b iː /; Ancient Greek: Νιόβη: Nióbē) was a daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice, the sister of Apis, and the mother by Zeus of Argus, who was the eponym of Argos. [1]
In Greek mythology, Niobe (/ ˈ n aɪ. ə. b iː /; Ancient Greek: Νιόβη: Nióbē) may refer to the following women: Niobe, wife of the autochthon Alalcomeneus. [1] Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus and mother of Argus by Zeus. [2] Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and mother of the Niobids by Amphion. [3]
Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe (Argive). [2] Argus, son of Callirhoe and Piras (son of the above Argus) and brother to Arestorides and Triops. [3] Argus, son of Phineus and Danaë, in a rare variant of the myth in which she and her two sons (the other being Argeus) travel to Italy. [citation needed] Argus or Argeus ...
Artemis; 5 daughters with a nurse; younger son with a pedagogue; 3 other sons; Apollo. Top: dead Niobids. 160–170 Ad In Greek mythology , the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe , slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe, born of the royal house of Phrygia , had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring ...
He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and was possibly the brother of Pelasgus. [1] Argus married either Evadne, the daughter of Strymon and Neaera, or Peitho the Oceanid, [2] and had by her six sons: Criasus, Ecbasus, [3] Iasus, Peiranthus (or Peiras, Peirasus, Peiren), Epidaurus and Tiryns (said by Pausanias to be the namesake of the city Tiryns). [4]
Tantalus' daughter was the tragic Niobe, who is associated with the "Weeping Rock" (Ağlayan Kaya in Turkish), a natural formation facing the city of Manisa. The Greek deities Apollo and Artemis were said to have killed all 14 children of Niobe at Mount Sipylus, whereupon the grief-stricken Niobe was turned to stone. [3] [4] [5]
Phoroneus' successor was Argus, who was Niobe's son, either by Zeus or Phoroneus himself. He was also the father of Apis , who may have also ruled Argos (according to Tatiānus [ 25 ] ). He was worshipped in Argos with an eternal fire that was shown to Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, and funeral sacrifices were offered to him at his tomb ...