Niobe

is agreement that the sculpture was discovered on the Esquiline. This 5th century marble sculpture is based on a Greek mythology of a Niobe who had insulted the goddess Lato. The Niobe had supposedly thought of herself worthier than the goddess (Cartwright, 2013). The goddess Lato directed her offspring, Apollo and Artemis to shoot down Niobe's children. The image, most likely used as a pediment, represents a daughter of Niobe falling after Artemis shot her with an arrow as she escaped (Cartwright, 2013). The lady’s piece of clothing slipped off as she attempted to pull out her…

Tower: The Stories of Niobe and Danaë to Foreshadow Antigone’s Fate Sophocles’s Antigone follows Antigone, a girl born to the royal but doomed house of Cadmus. She is brought before her uncle Creon for breaking his law and burying her traitorous brother Polynices. As she waits for her sentence, stories of mortals and gods alike are told, including those of Niobe and Danaë. These stories of Niobe and Danaë are incorporated to foreshadow Antigone’s fate of being left to die in a rocky vault.…

A story, a novel, a writing, a poem- all many different ways that authors compose their thoughts into writing. While may keep private self thinking journals others write to be heard. For instance, Phillis Wheatley is an author that uses her words to make sound. In her poem the “Niobe in Distress for her Children slain by Apollo”, Wheatley uses a bold tone in a creative way to share her introspection. First and foremost, the most interesting part about Wheatley’s poem is how she sets up her…

person, is suffering. However, suffering is not just the domain of people, but it also affects gods and goddesses. Although Niobe and Demeter belonged to a fellowship of queens and goddesses, they just like mortals had to cope with adversity and threats coming from the other gods; they struggled with vices typical to people and suffered pain. Moreover,…

politically influenced paintings. Jacques-Louis David created the painting of, Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe, in 1772 (Figure 1). This painting is oil on canvas with an approximate size of 48 by 61 ½ inches. At first glance, this painting had no visible brush strokes and had a very smooth and glossy surface. The art canvas is medium-sized and details were fairly visible, but it required me to look closer to see more detail. At the center of the canvas, there is a woman…

reason is because she was the only one that could pick on him….they’re siblings after all. The siblings did not enjoy spending unnecessary time together so they never really bonded over anything,excluding one thing. Apollo and Artemis were very overprotective of their mother so if anyone insulted her they would avenge for her mother. They first started this bonding activity while they were at party in honor of Leto. Niobe,a mother of 14 children, 7 daughters and 7 sons, had…

Book 6, the stories this week, were very interesting, and I would teach my children some of the lessons from the stories. Although, I would make Ovid's stories more children friendly so I would change the murdering, raping, and suicide to alternative situations. These stories have to do with revenge so I would definitely mention how revenge is not the answer because it usually ends poorly. I personally enjoy and would tell the story of Arachnae and Minerva because it has an important common…

In antiquity, the gods appeared on pottery to tell a story. A specific piece is a krater which depicts Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe. In Greek mythology, Artemis and Apollo were twin gods. Artemis was the goddess of the Hunt, nature, and the moon. Apollo was the god of the Sun, music, and truth. Niobe was the daughter of the king Tantalus, a son of Zeus. The story goes that Niobe had six sons and six daughters, of which she flaunted and claimed she was superior to the Titan…

conveys that King Hamlet is a wise and honourable man who protects and enlightens Denmark and its citizens. In Addition, the quote suggests that Hamlet is indeed in favour of his Father. In contrast, Hamlet compares King Claudius to a satyr due to King Claudius quickly marrying Queen Gertrude similar to satyrs who would often chase and lust over women. Furthermore, Hamlet also compares King Claudius to a satyr to suggest the fact that King Claudius loves to drench himself in alcohol like satyrs.…

Apollo was the god of light, prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery (but not for war or hunting), poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks. He was also a god of light, know as “Phoebus” (radiant or beaming, and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god). He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus (from sminthos, rat) and as Parnopius. Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo`s first achievement was…