niobe

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1. niobe - Noun

2. Niobe - Proper noun

Meaning

The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

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Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost. Richard Henry Stoddard

so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed. T. S. Eliot

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylus in Asia Minor and either turned to stone as she wept or killed herself. Source: Internet

A devastated Niobe and her remaining children were turned to stone by Artemis as they wept. Source: Internet

He was last seen battling Ghost and Niobe, but also had memorable fights with Neo and Morpheus. Source: Internet

For the Greeks, Tantalus was a primordial ruler of mythic Lydia, and Niobe his proud daughter; her husband Amphion associated Lydia with Thebes in Greece, and through Pelops the line of Tantalus was part of the founding myths of Mycenae 's second dynasty. Source: Internet

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