person
Niobe
Theban queen whose children were slain for her boast; she was turned to a perpetually weeping stone.
Reading notes
- The Loves §3.12 Niobe
Theban queen turned to a perpetually weeping stone after her children were slain.
- The Heroides §20 the proud mother
Niobe, turned to weeping stone for boasting against Diana and her brother; a third example of divine vengeance.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.2 Niobe
Niobe, whose seven sons and seven daughters were slain by Apollo and Diana for her boast, and who was turned to weeping stone; Ovid envies her loss of feeling.
- Ibis §18 slain together with Damasichthon
The children of Niobe (the Niobids, Damasichthon among them), shot down by Apollo and Diana.
- Ibis §18 sister of Pelops
Niobe, sister of Pelops, turned to weeping stone after the loss of her children.
- Metamorphoses §6.131 Niobe
Queen of Thebes, wife of Amphion and daughter of Tantalus, whose boast of her seven sons and seven daughters over Latona's two brought Apollo and Diana to destroy her children; she wept herself into stone.