Niobe (Argive)

In Greek mythology, Niobe (/ˈnaɪ.ə.biː/; Ancient Greek: Νιόβη, romanized: Nióbē, pronounced [ni.óbɛː]) was a daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice, the sister of Apis, and the mother by Zeus of Argus, who was the eponym of Argos.^[1][2] She may have appeared in the lost genealogical epic Catalogue of Women, as part of the family tree of Inachids, one of the mythological royal dynasties of Argos.^{[citation needed]}

According to a lost work by the sixth-century BCE mythographer Acusilaus – cited by Apollodorus in his Bibliotheca – and the Pseudo-Clementine Writings (written in the third century CE), she was also the mother of Pelasgus.^[2][3] Acusilaus also claimed she was the first woman to ever have sex with Zeus.^[4] Niobe is not to be confused with the more famous Niobe, who was punished for boasting that she had more children than Leto.^[5]