- In Gr**** 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
Niobid Painter was an
ancient Athenian vase
painter in the red-figure
style who was
active from
approximately 470 to 450 BC. He is
named after a calyx...
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Niobe boasted of her
fourteen children,
seven male and
seven female (the
Niobids), to Leto who only had two children, the
twins Apollo and Artemis. The...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
quotations from
ancient depictions of the
vengeance of the gods (Laocoon,
Niobids,
Farnese Bull). The high
altar of St.
Walburga rises high
above an ancient...
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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...
- the myth
speculates that this Chloris,
mother of Nestor, was one of the
Niobids and Apollo, who
killed her siblings,
granted her son long life for the...
