'And then there were none...' - Niobe and her Children
How can a myth for human arrogance and slaughter have a consolatory effect? Niobe, a proud mother of six sons and an equal number of daughters, claimed superiority over Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis. As a consequence for this insolence, she was deprived from her motherhood; the divine archers slaughtered her children one by one. In every handbook about ancient Greek mythology, this myth of
