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    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...
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    the children of Niobe, who were collectively called the Niobids. The krater is known as the Niobid Krater and is now housed at the Louvre in Paris. In his...
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    the Musée du Louvre has provided the name for the Niobid Painter. A lifesize group of marble Niobids, including one of Niobe sheltering one of her daughters...
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    boasting of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven sons and seven daughters, while Leto had only two. For her hubris...
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    boasted that she was superior to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two. She further mocked...
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    shooting five female Niobids (“Niobids” is a term for the children of Niobe), with Apollo on the far right shooting five male Niobids, both of which have...
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  • Tantalus (mythology) (category Niobids)
    with his brother Pleisthenes by their uncle Atreus. Tantalus, one of the Niobids, children of King Amphion of Thebes and Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. Pindar...
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    Giovanni, Rome, together with the group of individual sculptures called the Niobids. Circumstances of their discovery, and the fact that the heads were missing...
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  • sons. Chione, the naiad mother of Priapus by Dionysus. Chione, one of the Niobids. Avery, Catherine B., ed. (1962). New Century Classical Handbook. New York:...
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    quotations from ancient depictions of the vengeance of the gods (Laocoon, Niobids, Farnese Bull). The high altar of St. Walburga rises high above an ancient...
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