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	NIOBIDS, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		The NIOBIDS were the children of King Amphion 1 of Thebes and his wife Queen Niobe 2.
		Niobe 2 provoked with her insults the wrath of the children of Leto, Apollo and Artemis, who shot most of the NIOBIDS with their arrows, which in other words means that the Royal House was left desolate by plague.
		The NIOBIDS were buried at Thebes, but Niobe 2 left the city after the death of her children, and went to her father's place at Sipylus, near Smyrna in Asia Minor, where she was transformed by
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/NIOBIDS.html (0 words)

	Niobe
		Zeus had turned all the people of Thebes to stone and so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves entombed them.
		Sipylus has a carving of a female face on it that the locals claimed was Niobe, though it was probably originally intended to be Cybele.
		Aedon was the queen of Thebes who attempted to kill the son of her rival, Niobe, also her sister-in-law (Aedon was married to Zethus), and accidentally killed her own daughter, Itylus instead and thus, the gods again changed her into a nightingale.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ni/Niobids.html (230 words)

	The Massacre of the Niobids by CAMASSEI, Andrea
		The Massacre of the Niobids by CAMASSEI, Andrea
		Painted at the commission of Urban VIII's nephew Taddeo Barberini, the two large canvases, The Massacre of the Niobids and The Hunt of Diana were recorded in 1648-49 as hanging in his residence in the Via dei Giubbonari.
		The dramatic narrative of the Niobids, in which the mortal Niobe is punished for insulting the goddess Latona, comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
	www.wga.hu /html/c/camassei/1niobid.html (0 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Niobids
		In Greek mythology the Niobids were the children of Amphion and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe had boastfuly compared the number of her own offspring with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis' mother.
		Another version of the myth states that two of the Niobids were spared, Chloris and Amyclas.
		In another version of the myth, the Niobids are the children of Philottus and Niobe, daughter of Assaon.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Niobids (287 words)

	Gustave Courbet
		The stance was used again by the Greek sculptor of the Dying Niobid.
		And the Niobid was killed because her mother offended a goddess by boasting of her seven sons and seven daughters.
		The niobids nudity is not simply meant to display an ideal of feminine beauty but to accentuate the drama of the event.
	www.bethel.edu /~gchase/CIFA/language/courbet.html (280 words)

	Definition of Niobids
		Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, with the last begging for his life (Apollo would have spared his life, but had already released the arrow), and Artemis, her daughters.
		Zeus had turned all the people of Thebes to stone and so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves entombed them.
		Mount Sipylus has a carving of a female face on it that the locals claimed was Niobe, though it was probably originally intended to be Cybele.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Niobids (0 words)

	Niobe - History for Kids!
		She was the daughter of Tantalus, and so she lived under a curse.
		Niobe had seven children, boys and girls, who were called the Niobids, meaning children of Niobe (I don't know what happened to their dad; he is not in the story).
		Apollo and Artemis, who are both good marksmen, shot every one of the Niobids with their arrows and killed them.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/religion/myths/niobe.htm (0 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 265 (v. 1)
		But as Amphiaraus saw in this accident an omen boding destruction to him and his com panions, they called the child Archemorus, and instituted the Nemean games in honour of him.
		The names of the Niobids, however, differ very much in the different lists.
		One of the ten crrparyyoi who were appointed to supersede Alcibiades in the command of the Athenian fleet after the battle of Notium, b.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0274.html (0 words)

	Paleo Facts Fossils
		Expert paleontologists have concluded that they are probably the largest of this species ever found.
		These Niobids display the slightly raised central lobe and the two pleural lobes of the cephalon with well-defined eyes.
		Careful preparation has exposed the "terrace ridges" which are asymmetrical ridges running sub parallel to the margin on the outer portion of the pleural region of the pygidium.
	www.paleofacts.com /fossils.html (0 words)

	Apollo - God of the Sun and Music - Crystalinks
		Niobe - A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.
		Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, with the last begging for his life, and Artemis her daughters.
		Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions of the myth, a number of the Niobids were spared (Chloris, usually).
	www.crystalinks.com /apollo.html (0 words)

	Zeus, Part Two
		Chloris, who never lost the paleness that the fright caused her, became Queen of Pylos in Messenia after having married Neleus, and their son Nestor was granted by Apollo an unusual long life because the god wished to give back the years he had taken from these young men and women.
		The Niobids were buried at Thebes but Niobe left the city after the death of her children and went to her father's place at Sipylus, near Smyrna in Asia Minor, and there she was transformed by Apollo into a stone from which tears flow night and day.
		Those who have been at this place in Mount Sipylus had said that the rock lacks any resemblance to a woman when the observer is close to it, but that going further away one can see the form of a woman in tears, with her head bowed down.
	www.thanasis.com /mmar99b.htm (0 words)

	Images of Apollo
		Apollo and Artemis: Large image, Niobid Painter, ca 460-450 BC.
		Musical contest of Apollo and Marsyas: Image, Praxiteles, ca 320 BC.
		Slaying of the Niobids by Apollo and Artemis: Image, sarcophagus relief (Roman copy), Hellenistic.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/classics/jhamilton/mythology/apollo (0 words)

	The Slaughter of the Niobids" After The Antique, 19th Century Carved Carrera Marble
		The Slaughter of the Niobids" After The Antique, 19th Century Carved Carrera Marble
		Capital Antiques and Fine Art, Washington, DC MacArthur Blvd, NW.
		The Slaughter of the Niobids" After The Antique, 19th Century Carved Carrera Marble Bust of "Niobe" H: 21", Italian C1880.
	www.capitalantiques.com /Sculpture/html/S004.htm (0 words)

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