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Greek Mythology > People, Places, & Things > Niobe
The daughter of Tantalus and the wife of one of the builders of the city of Thebes, Amphion.
Niobe provoked Apollon and Artemis to vengeance by insulting their mother, Leto; Niobe likened herself to Leto and boasted that she had many children and Leto only had two; Niobe had six boys and six girls in the flower of their youth; Apollon killed the boys and Artemis killed the girls; the bloody bodies of the children laid exposed for nine days before Zeus allowed the other Olympians to bury them; Niobe was turned into stone on the slopes of Mount Sipylos near the waters of Akhelous (Achelous), in which state she still weeps over her loss.
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