A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 487
Leto (Latona) who had buttwo children. The number of those of Niobe is usually given asseven sons and seven daughters. Apollo and Artemis (Diana) soheartily espoused the cause of Leto that they killed the children of Niobe with their arrows. Zeus(Jupiter) metamorphosed Niobeinto a stone, and placed… … Notus. (Athens.) ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 471 Oceanus. Son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gsea (Earth). Hus-band of Tcthys and father of all the river gods and water nymphsin the whole earth. He was especially the deity of the Atlantic^or the water without the Pillars of Hercules, in distinction from…
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