Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Niobe.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus names Niobe daughter of Phoroneus as the first mortal woman Zeus lies with — mother of Argus, eponym of Argos. Carefully distinct from Niobe daughter of Tantalus.
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Niobe (Argive)
Daughter of Phoroneus, first mortal beloved of Zeus, mother of Argus — the Argive Niobe, not the Theban weeper of the Niobids.
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Phoroneus
Niobe's father — primeval king of Argos whose daughter links the Inachid house to Zeus and the naming of the land.
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Argus (king of Argos)
Niobe's son by Zeus — the king who gives his name to Argos and the Argives.