Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Niobe: Apollo and Artemis Slaughter Her Children
  Heroes — Niobe (Theban / Lydian) · Apollodorean / Homeric (boast over Leto; children shot; stone on Sipylus)
• Tantalus: Crime and Punishment
  Heroes — Tantalids / Pelops · Homeric underworld punishment + Apollodorean crimes (feast of Pelops; theft of nectar/ambrosia)
• Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
  Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
• Amphion’s Death after Niobe’s Children Fall
  Heroes — Theban / Niobid aftermath · Apollodorean — Amphion kills himself (or is killed) when Apollo and Artemis slay the Niobids
• Achilles Consoles Priam with Niobe (*Iliad* 24)
  Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Ransom of Hector · Homeric — Niobe’s grief and return to food as consolation paradeigma
• Niobe’s Weeping Rock on Sipylus (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Lydian / Anatolian aetiology · Pausanian local — rock on Mount Sipylus still weeping

Places appearing with them

• Countryside
• Hades
• Lydia
• Mount Cithaeron
• Mysia
• Olympus
• Pytho
• Sardis
• Ships
• Spring Dirce
• Thebes

Themes

• Birth
• Divine Council
• Exile
• Marriage
• Metamorphosis
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Theft
• Underworld
• War