Niobe. In Greek mythology, Niobe was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione, the most frequently cited, or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa, and the sister of Pelops and Broteas.
Her father was the ruler of a city located near Manisa in today's Aegean Turkey that was called Tantalis or the city of Tantalus, or Sipylus. The city was located at the foot of Mount Sipylus and its ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today.
Pliny reports that Tantalis was destroyed by an earthquake and the city of Sipylus was built in its place. Niobe's father is referred to as Phrygian and sometimes even as King of Phrygia, although his city was located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state before the beginning of the first millennium BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more inland.
References to his son and Niobe's brother as Pelops the Lydian led some scholars to the conclusion that there would be good grounds for believing that she belonged to a primordial house of Lydia. She was already mentioned in Homer's Iliad which relates her proud hubris, for which she was punished by Leto, who sent Apollo and Artemis to slay all of her children, after which her children lay unburied for nine days while she abstained from food.
Once the gods interred them, she retreated to her nati
Her father was the ruler of a city located near Manisa in today's Aegean Turkey that was called Tantalis or the city of Tantalus, or Sipylus. The city was located at the foot of Mount Sipylus and its ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today.
Pliny reports that Tantalis was destroyed by an earthquake and the city of Sipylus was built in its place. Niobe's father is referred to as Phrygian and sometimes even as King of Phrygia, although his city was located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state before the beginning of the first millennium BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more inland.
References to his son and Niobe's brother as Pelops the Lydian led some scholars to the conclusion that there would be good grounds for believing that she belonged to a primordial house of Lydia. She was already mentioned in Homer's Iliad which relates her proud hubris, for which she was punished by Leto, who sent Apollo and Artemis to slay all of her children, after which her children lay unburied for nine days while she abstained from food.
Once the gods interred them, she retreated to her nati
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