Niobe

Her children are killed by Apollo and Artemis after she boasts that she surpasses Leto with respect to her children.

Genealogy

Dione

Tantalus

Pelops

Amphion

Agenor, Amyclas, Astyoche, Astycratia, Chloris, Cleodoxa, Damasichthon, Ethodaia, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Meliboea, Ogygia, Pelopia, Phaedimus, Phthia, Sipylus, Tantalus

Places
  1. Sipylus
  2. Thebes
  3. Troy
Events
  1. Amphion marries Niobe
  2. Niobe gives birth to seven sons and seven daughters
  3. Niobe says she is more blessed with children than Leto
  4. Artemis shoots down Niobe’s daughters
  5. Apollo shoots down Niobe’s sons
  6. Niobe returns to her father after the slaughter of her children
  7. Niobe prays to Zeus and is turned into a stone that weeps
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.6
  2. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 21.3
  3. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 21.9
  4. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 21.10
  5. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 22.5
  6. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 34.4
  7. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 34.5
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 11.2
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 16.4
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 2.5
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 2.7
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