person
Niobe
also: Νιόβη
A queen who boasted over Leto's two children and lost all twelve of her own to Apollo and Artemis's arrows; Achilles invokes her, weeping yet eating, to persuade the grieving Priam to eat in Book 24.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §24.596 Niobe
A queen who boasted over Leto's two children and lost all twelve of her own to Apollo's and Artemis's arrows in punishment; Achilles invokes her story to Priam in Book 24 to persuade him that even grief must yield to food and rest.