Son of Niobe

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Kneeling Youth - possibly Ilioneus, son of Niobe, Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Greek classical, about 300 B.C., acquired in 1897, a plaster copy found in The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Created using Memento Beta from AutoDesk. In ancient Greek mythology, Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus and Dione, often cited as her mother, or Eurythemista or Euryanassa, with Pelops and Broteas being her siblings. Her father is referred to as Phrygian king. Niobe boasted of her fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls (the Niobids), to Leto who only had two children, the twins Apollo and Artemis. For further updates, follow @GeoffreyMarchal on Twitter.