• The children of Niobe is a novel written by Tasos Athanasiadis. In this novel Athanasiadis describes the way Greeks lived in Anatolia by the example of...
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    mythology, Niobe (/ˈnaɪ.ə.biː/; Greek: Νιόβη [ni.óbɛː]: Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista...
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    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...
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    Artemis (redirect from The Hunt of Artemis)
    that Niobe had given birth to twelve children, equally divided in six sons and six daughters (the Niobids). Other sources speak of fourteen children, seven...
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    Niobids (category Deeds of Apollo)
    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,...
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    Niobid Painter (category Anonymous artists of antiquity)
    shows the god Apollo and his sister Artemis killing the children of Niobe, who were collectively called the Niobids. The krater is known as the Niobid...
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    because Niobe had gloated that she had more children than their mother, Leto. Niobe sits in silent mourning on stage during most of the play. In the Republic...
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    in the cave there existed a representation of Apollo and Artemis slaughtering the children of Niobe. Echoing the west part of the south wing of the Propylaea...
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    Niobe and Amphion's firstborn Amaleus out of jealousy that Niobe had borne many children, while she and Zethus only had one. However in the dark of the...
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  • Pelasgus. She is not to be confused with the more famous Niobe, who was punished for boasting that she had more children than Leto. Apollodorus, 2.1.1–2; Plato...
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