The Allodye and Artemis

Artemis was also fiercely protective of her mother Lito, and her twin brother Apollo. The famous instance of this involves Nairobi, the daughter of Tantalus, and a sister of Pilops. She boasted of her superiority to Lito because she had 14 children, 7 boys and 7 girls,. However, 14 mortal children are not at all comparable to two divine children. So when Artemis and Apollo heard of Nairobi's boastful impiety, they decided to teach her a lesson for her hubris. They killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis shot arrows into her 7 daughters who died instantly without a sound. A devastated Nia B was turned to stone by Artemis as