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Pausanias, Description of Greece 6 0 Browse Search
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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Corinth, chapter 21 (search)
e is a work of Praxiteles. The statue of the maiden beside the goddess they call Chloris （Pale）, saying that she was a daughter of Niobe, and that she was called Meliboea at the first. When the children of Amphion were destroyed by Apollo and Arternis, she alone of her sisters, along with Amyclas, escaped; their escape was due to their prayers to Leto. Meliboea was struck so pale by her fright, not only at the time but also for the rest of her life, that even her name was accordingly changed from Meliboea to Chloris. Now the Argives say that these two built originally the temple to Leto, but I think that none of Niobe's children survived, for I place more Meliboea to Chloris. Now the Argives say that these two built originally the temple to Leto, but I think that none of Niobe's children survived, for I place more reliance than others on the poetry of Homer, one of whose verses bears out my view:—Though they were only two, yet they gave all to destruction.Hom. Il. 24.609So Homer knows that the house of Amphion was utterly overth