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noun - (Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all
The daughter of Tantalus who turned to stone while bewailing the loss of her children.
NIOBE - In Greek mythology, Niobe (; Greek: [ni.ób]) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione, the most frequently cited, or of Eurythemista or Eurya...
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After Zeus turned her to stone, she still wept over the loss of her children |
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In Greek mythology, Niobe (; Greek: [ni.ób]) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione, the most frequently cited, or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa, and the sister of Pelops and Broteas. * Her father was the ruler of a city located near Manisa in today's Aegean Turkey that was called "Tantalis" or "the city of Tantalus", or "Sipylus". The city was located at the foot of Mount Sipylus and its ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today. Pliny reports that Tantalis was destroyed by an earthquake and the city of Sipylus (Magnesia ad Sipylum) was built in its place.Niobe's father is referred to as "Phrygian" and sometimes even as "King of Phrygia", although his city was located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state before the beginning of the first millennium BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more inland. References to his son and Niobe's brother as "Pelo |