person
Niobe
also: Tantalis
Daughter of Tantalus and a Theban queen; boasting of her many children, she saw them slain and was turned to a weeping stone on Mt Sipylus.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §383 Tantalid mother
Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, whose children Apollo and Diana slew for her boasting; she became weeping stone on Sipylus.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.63.2 Niobe
In myth, the queen of Thebes whose many children were slain by Apollo and Diana; in Homer (Iliad 24) she yet remembered to eat --- Seneca's proof that even epic grief allows a limit.
- Hercules (Mad) §393 daughter of Tantalus
Niobe, who lost her children for her boast and weeps as stone on Mt Sipylus; Lycus cites her among Thebes's doomed mothers.
- Hercules on Oeta §173 the Tantalid
Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, who lost all her children and was turned to stone, 'outliving herself.'
- Hercules on Oeta §1869 one mother stiffened to stone
Niobe, whose fourteen children ('twice seven') were slain and who turned to weeping stone; Alcmena outdoes her grief.
- Oedipus §609 daughter of Tantalus
Niobe, whose pride in her many children brought their slaughter; safe now among the shades, she counts them.