Queen

Niobe

Νιόβη

Overview

Queen who boasts of her many children and suffers terrible punishment from Apollo and Artemis.

Heroic Age

Tears, stone

Unknown or primordial.

No children recorded.

Beyond Antiquity

Niobe still appears in the modern world through language, science, medicine, astronomy or culture.

Today: Chemical element 41.

Named after Niobe, daughter of Tantalus. The name reflects the close chemical relationship between niobium and tantalum.