children with arrows. Famous representations of or allusions to the myth include images on Greek vases and sculpture groups. [3] The myth can also be found on Roman marble sarcophagi of the 2 nd [...] of the paidagogos in the visualization of the myth of the Niobids on Roman sarcophagi, in Greek vase painting as well as in the sculpture groups: he is never missing. However, the Bosporan type does [...] R. Harman. ↩ Ov. Met . 6, 146–312. ↩ Well-known examples are the name vase of the Niobid painter: M. Denoyelle, Le cratère des Niobides (Paris 1997); the group of Niobe and

1957) 45-49, fragments 71-84 concerning Kratinos’ Thracian Women . ↩ Watzinger, C., Griechische Vasen in Tübingen (1924) 59 F2 pl. 41. Now at Tübingen, Universität S/10 1347. ( LIMC [...] performed by Thracians and with a rather exotic nature, at least in Athenian eyes. We also have three vases depicting Bendis. One shows us the first steps of the integration of Bendis into the Athenian pantheon