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Definition of: Niobe
(nī′ə·bē)
In Greek mythology, the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, whose children were killed by Apollo and Artemis after she had vaunted her superiority to their mother Leto: the weeping Niobe was turned by Zeus into a stone from which tears continued to flow.
After copy of a statue attributed to Scopas in the Uffizi, Florence.
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