# Niobe — Bulfinch’s Mythology character guide

> Niobe in Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** this Niobe

**First appearance:** 0036-niobe

## Who they are

Proud queen turned to stone after boasting about her children, slain by Apollo and Diana.

## In the story

### [XIV: Minerva—Niobe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/xiv-minerva-niobe)

Queen of Thebes who boasts of her children over Latona, leading to the death of all her offspring and her transformation into a weeping stone.

### [Niobe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/niobe)

Queen of Thebes, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters, who boasts of her superiority over Latona and is punished by the loss of all her children.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/i)

Referenced as mother of Ilioneus, one of her sons slain by Apollo.

### [N](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/bulfinch_s_mythology_se/chapters/n)

Daughter of Tantalus, proud Queen of Thebes, whose seven sons and seven daughters were killed by Apollo and Diana; she wept until turned to stone.

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