Niobe (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Arts 2 Entertainment 3 Science & technology 4 See also

Niobe is a woman in Greek mythology.

Niobe may also refer to:

[edit] Arts

• Niobe room, a room in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy - one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world
• Niobe (musician), the moniker of German singer/songwriter Yvonne Cornelius
• Niobe, a lost play by Aeschylus

[edit] Entertainment

• Deep Niobe, a fictional character in the Mangaseries Saint Seiya, authored by Masami Kurumada and later adapted to anime
• "Niobe", a song performed by the musician Caribou
• Niobe Kaftan, a character in Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, in particular the protagonist of With a Tangled Skein
• Niobe (The Matrix), a character in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions
• Niobe of the Voreni, a character in the television series Rome

[edit] Science & technology

• 71 Niobe, an asteroid
• HMS Niobe (1897), a ship of the Diadem-class of protected cruiser in the Royal Navy until 1910
  • HMCS Niobe (1910-1920), transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy
• German anti-aircraft cruiser Niobe, a German World War II vessel
• Moss-forest Rat (Rattus niobe),a species of rodent in the Muridae family
• Niobe Fritillary (Argynnis niobe), a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family
• Niobe Ground Squirrel (Lariscus niobe), a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family
• Niobe's Shrew (Crocidura niobe), a species of mammal in the Soricidae family
• Orachrysops niobe, a species of butterfly in the Lycaenidae family
• Segelschulschiff Niobe (1922-1932), a tall ship used by the German Navy to train cadets and aspiring NCOs

[edit] See also

• Niobium, an element