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Title
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Niobe sampt iren Kindern wirdt umbgebracht
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Description
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This image illustrates the goddess Diana and her twin brother Phoebus in the clouds with bows in their hands as they shoot arrows down to Earth. Diana and Phoebus are shooting and killing the fourteen children of Niobe as she had declared herself better than Latona, the daughter of Titans. Niobe boasted about having fourteen children as opposed to Latona who only had two. Latona ordered her children Diana and Phoebus to shoot down every single one of Niobe’s children as punishment for hubris. Niobe is illustrated in the chaos with her hands raised in the air with a crown on her head, as she watches her children get shot with arrows.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:21937
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Source Name
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P. Ouidij Nasonis, deß Sinnreichen und hochverstendigen Poeten, Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung, mit schönen figuren gezieret, auch kurzen Argumenten und außlegungen erkläret, und in Teutsche Reymen gebracht, durch Johann Spreng von Augspurg [Publius Ovidius Naso, the Ingenious and Highly Understandable Poet, Metamorphoses or Transformations, Adorned with Beautiful Images, and also descriptions of Short Arguments and Explanations, Brought into German Rhymes by Johann Spreng of Augsburg]
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Image
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mta_21937_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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Gods
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Goddesses
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Phoebus
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Latona
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Diana
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Hubris
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Niobe