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 with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis' mother: a classic example of hubris.[1]
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1850; wall painting; unknown dimensions; on a wall of the Room of the Niobids, Neues Museum, Berlin It is hard to recapture the radical and exciting...
she or the below Chloris is mentioned in this role. Chloris, one of the Niobids. Chloris, daughter of Orchomenus, married the seer Ampyx (son of Elatus...
to twelve children, equally divided in six sons and six daughters (the Niobids). Other sources speak of fourteen children, seven sons, and seven daughters...
Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (the Niobids) at the hands of Apollo and Artemis. Diodorus Siculus calls Chloris his...
the giant Tityos, who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of the Niobids. The large white marble sculpture is 2.24 m (7.3 feet) high. Its complex...
called Meliboea, was one of Niobe and Amphion's fourteen children (the Niobids). She was often confused with another Chloris, daughter of another Amphion...
Virebent, 1840 Neoclassical caryatids of the south wall of the Room of the Niobids, Neues Museum, Berlin, by Friedrich August Stüler, 1845-1850 Neoclassical...
known as grandsons of Phylacus through Iphiclus. Astyoche, one of the Niobids. Astyoche, mother of Pentheus, otherwise known as Agave. Astyoche, daughter...
Several Niobids perhaps from the pediment of the temple were probably taken to Rome by Augustus including the dying Niobid and the running Niobid (now in...
sculptures from Bassae, looted by Romans, in three pedimental figures of Niobids discovered at various times in the later nineteenth century on the site...
him three sons Chione, mother of Priapus by Dionysus Chione, one of the Niobids Chione (plant), a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae Chione (bivalve)...
perhaps is also linked to the dying Niobid and the running Niobid of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The Niobid should have decorated the pediment...
being Argus Argeus, son of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho Argeus, one of the Niobids Argeus, son of Licymnius, brother of Melas Argeus, son of Pelops and Hippodamia...
attributed to four individuals: Pelopia, a Theban princess as one of the Niobids, children of King Amphion and Niobe, daughter of King Tantalus of Lydia...
one of the following characters in Greek mythology: Astynome, one of the Niobids. Astynome, daughter of Talaus and mother of Capaneus by Hipponous. Astynome...
the oldest of the Niobids, the twelve or fourteen children of Amphion, king of Thebes, by his wife Queen Niobe. Although the Niobids are primarily notable...