Editing Niobids (section)

== Names ==
The number of Niobids mentioned most usually numbered twelve ([[Homer]]) or fourteen ([[Euripides]] and [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]]), but other sources mention twenty,<ref>A number attributed to [[Hesiod]] by various scholiasts (Graves 1960:259.</ref> four ([[Herodotus]]), or eighteen ([[Sappho]]). Generally half these children were sons, the other half daughters. The names of some of the children are mentioned; these lists vary by author:
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| rowspan="2" |''Ovid<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 6.255 ff.</ref>''
| rowspan="2" |''Apollodorus<ref name="Apollodorus">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 3.5.6</ref>''
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |''Hyginus<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 11 & 69</ref>''
| rowspan="2" |''Lactantius<ref>[[Lactantius Placidus]] on [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 3.198; [[Vatican Mythographers|First Vatican mythographer]], 153</ref>''
| colspan="2" |''Scholia on'' Euripides<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' 159</ref>
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Other different names were also mentioned, including [[Amaleus]], Amyclas and Meliboea (also in Apollodorus, see below).

[[Manto (mythology)|Manto]], the seeress daughter of [[Tiresias]], overheard Niobe's remark and bid the Theban women placate Leto, in vain. Apollo and Artemis slew all the children of Niobe with their arrows, Apollo shooting the sons, Artemis the daughters. According to some sources, however, two of the Niobids who had supplicated Leto were spared: Apollodorus gives their names as [[Meliboea]] (Chloris)<ref>Meliboëa had turned so pale with fear that she was still nicknamed Chloris when she married [[Neleus]] some years later." (Graves 1960:259).</ref> and [[Amyclas]].<ref name="Apollodorus" /> Another apparent survivor is Phylomache, who is mentioned by Apollodorus as one of the two possible spouses of [[Pelias]].<ref>Apollodorus, 1.9.10</ref>

The Niobids were buried by the gods at [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]]. [[Ovid]] remarked that all men mourned Amphion, for the extinction of his line, but none mourned Niobe save her brother [[Pelops]].<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 6.401–404</ref>