Niobe
Niobē
Queen of Thebes, daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, whose pride destroyed her. Boasting that she was greater than the goddess Leto — for she had borne many children while Leto had only two — she drew the vengeance of those two: Apollo and Artemis shot down all her sons and daughters. Homer, in Achilles' consolation of Priam, counts twelve children, six sons and six daughters, slain by the silver bow, and tells how Niobe, worn out with weeping, was turned to stone on Mount Sipylus, where amid the lonely crags she still broods on the sorrows the gods gave her (Hom. *Il.* 24.602–617). Apollodorus gives her parentage and the boast against Leto (Apollod. *Bibl.* 3.5.6).
Origin
Daughter of Tantalus, wife of Amphion of Thebes. Her children slain by Apollo and Artemis for her boast against Leto; turned to weeping stone on Mt Sipylus.