From the fragments it appears that for the first part of the tragedy the grieving Niobe sits veiled and silent.

* Agent Johnson — an agent who appears frequently during the game ; Niobe defeats him by kicking him off a cargo plane, while Ghost defeats him by knocking him into a short-circuited computer server.

Moreover a description of the nightingale ( 677 ) and Iris's threats of divine wrath ( 1240 ) are borrowed from Agamemnon and Pisthetaerus ' counter-threat to burn down Zeus's house ( 1246-7 ) appears to have been borrowed from Niobe.

Niobe also appears in the MMORPG The Matrix Online.

Antiope, as the mother of Amphion and Zethos, and the mother-in-law of Niobe, appears in the following novels:

Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and Dione and sister of Pelops and Broteas, had known Arachne, a Lydian woman, when she was still in Lydia / Maeonia in her father's lands near to Mount Sipylus, according to Ovid's account.

In classical music Benjamin Britten based one of his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid on Niobe.

* Book VI: Arachne, Niobe, Philomela and Procne ;

Later writers asserted that Niobe was wedded to Amphion, one of the twin founders of Thebes, where there was a single sanctuary where the twin founders were venerated, but in fact no shrine to Niobe.

Niobe is also mentioned in Sophocles's Antigone where, as Antigone is marched toward her death, she compares her own loneliness to that of Niobe.

A lifesize group of marble Niobids, including one of Niobe sheltering one of her daughters, found in Rome in 1583 at the same time as the Wrestlers, were taken in 1775 to the Uffizi in Florence where, in a gallery devoted to them, they remain some of the most prominent surviving sculptures of Classical antiquity ( see below ).

The player learns that Neo is not the only target of Persephone's predilection for trading kisses for esoteric information ; Niobe and Ghost are both put into positions where they must submit to her whims in order to gain critical information.

Such semi-legendary figures like the local ruler Tantalus, his son Pelops, his daughter Niobe, the departure of a sizable part of the region's population from their shores to found, according to one account, the future Etruscan civilization in present-day Italy, are all centered around Mount Sipylus, where the first urban settlement was probably located, and date from the period prior to the emergence of the Lydian Mermnad dynasty.

Niobe, queen of Thebes, enters in the midst of the worship and insults the goddess, claiming that having beauty, better parentage and more children than Latona, she is more fit to be worshipped than the goddess.

To punish this insolence, Latona begs Apollo and Artemis to avenge her against Niobe and to uphold her honor.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

Amphion's wife Niobe had many children, but had become arrogant and because of this she insulted the goddess Leto, who had only two children, Artemis and Apollo.

Niobe boasted of her fourteen children, seven male and seven female ( the Niobids ), to Leto who only had two children, the twins Apollo and Artemis.

Furthermore, the conflict between Niobe and Leto is mentioned in one of Sappho's poetic fragments (" Before they were mothers, Leto and Niobe had been the most devoted of friends.

In Greek mythology, the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe, born of the royal house of Phrygia, had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis ' mother: a classic example of hubris.

When Niobe dared to dispute with Leto about the beauty of her children, her punishment was as follows.

Meliboea was one of Niobe and Amphion's fourteen children ( the Niobids ), and the only one ( or one of two ) spared when Artemis and Apollo killed the Niobids in retribution for Niobe's insult to their mother Leto, bragging that she had many children and Leto had only two.

Mount Sipylus indeed has a natural rock formation which resembles a female face, and it has been associated with Niobe since ancient times and described by Pausanias.

When the Sentinels retreat after Neo defeats the former Agent Smith, now a virus that has threatened both humans and machines, Morpheus and Niobe embrace in celebration as cheers arise from the Zion population, who have received a brokered peace through Neo's sacrifice.

The Surprise's crew has to traverse the Sinai Peninsula and eventually meet the HEI ship Niobe in Suez.

Niobe was once romantically involved with Morpheus, but their relationship broke apart after Morpheus received his revelations from the Oracle and started to preach the prophecy of the One ( a prophecy Niobe has never truly believed in ).

Niobe has gone on to play a major role in The Matrix Online, acting as one of the " leaders " of the obviously enlarged Zion military since Locke, being free-born, cannot jack-in.

Niobe has defeated an Agent, but as with Morpheus, there were extenuating circumstances.

In addition to the standard works of the operatic repertoire, The Royal Opera has presented many less well known pieces since 2002, including Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, Massenet's Cendrillon, Prokofiev's The Gambler, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, Rossini's Il turco in Italia, Steffani's Niobe, and Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers.

During the battle, Rowena, who has stayed at home with Sieben's wife Niobe, dies.

The library has hand carved oak paneling, a fireplace, painted wall murals by Zoltan Sepeshy, tapestries and Jacobean fumed-oak furnishings and many bronze and marble statues including, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Nike, Niobe, Venus, and Mercury.

Varma has had a number of television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1997 and Bride and Prejudice in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the first season of BBC / HBO's historical drama series Rome.

The Niobe of Aeschylus, set in Thebes, survives in fragmentary quotes that were supplemented by a papyrus sheet containing twenty-one lines of text.

The novels Niobe and Pelops: Children of Tantalus, Niobe and Amphion: The Road to Thebes and Niobe and Chloris: Arrows of Artermis by Victoria Grossack and Alice Underwood, set in Greece's Bronze Age, posit another solution to the Niobids ' cause of death.

Niobe, queen of Thebes

Niobe later volunteers to go find the Nebuchadnezzar, the ship captained by Morpheus, upon which Neo serves, and the only ship yet to return to Zion.

In Reloaded, Niobe and her crew go to blow up the nuclear power plant, a feat of security bypassing which would presumably require something like a lobby scene squared.

A devastated Niobe and her remaining children were turned to stone by Artemis as they wept.

Niobe is unable to move from grief and seemingly turns to marble, though she continues to weep, and her body is transported to a high mountain peak in her native land.

In another mythic context, the Achelous was said to be formed by the tears of Niobe, who fled to Mount Sipylus after the deaths of her husband and children.

Envious of Niobe, the wife of her husband's brother Amphion, who had six sons and six daughters, she formed the plan of killing the eldest of Niobe's sons, but by mistake slew her own son Itylus.

A 1772 painting by Jacques Louis David depicting Niobe attempting to shield her children from Artemis and Apollo.

Devastated, Niobe fled back to Mount Sipylus and was turned into stone, and, as she wept unceasingly, waters started to pour from her petrified complexion.

The story of Niobe, and especially her sorrows, is an ancient one.

Parthenius of Nicaea records a rare version of the story of Niobe, in which her father is called Assaon and her husband Philottus.

The circumstances in which Niobe loses her children are also different, see Niobids # Variant myth.

Niobe's iconic tears were also mentioned in Hamlet's soliloquy ( Act 1, Scene 2 ), in which he contrasts his mother's grief over the dead King, Hamlet's father-" like Niobe, all tears "-to her unseemly hasty marriage to Claudius.

Three notable works, all dating from the 1770s, " Apollo and Diana Attacking Niobe and her Children " by Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, " The Children of Niobe Killed by Apollo and Diana " by Pierre-Charles Jombert and " Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe ’ s Children with their Arrows " by Jacques-Louis David belong to the tradition of French Baroque and Classicism.