Niobe

Niobe, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Tantalus, sister of Pelops, and wife of Amphion, King of Thebes. Proud of her six sons and six daughters, she regarded Leto with contempt as the mother of only two children; whereupon the two, Apollo and Artemis, slew all Niobe's children with their arrows and turned the people of the land into stone, as well as Niobe herself, who was on Mount Sipylus. The tradition is partly founded on a rough representation of the figure of a weeping woman presented by a dripping rock on the mountain.