Νιόβη :
Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and wife of
Amphīon, king of Thebes. Her six sons were slain by the
arrows of Apollo, and her six daughters by the arrows of Artemis,
because she had presumed to compare her children with those of Leto.
Niobe in grief was changed into stone, a legend that connects itself
with a natural conformation in the rock of Mt. Sipylus, which
resembles a woman in a sitting posture, Il.
24.602, 606.
Georg Autenrieth. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1891.
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