⭐️The knucklebone players⭐️

⭐️The knucklebone players⭐️

This #FrescoFriday we travel to Herculaneum. The scene has been labelled revealing Phoebe (the Titan) trying to pacify Leto (her daughter) and Niobe; on the ground two of the Niobids, Ileira and Aglaia play knucklebones.

The scene is thought to relate to the great wrath that fractured the friendship of Leto and Niobe. Niobe praised her own children and mocked Leto’s. Leto wasn’t having it and asked her children (Apollo and Artemis no less) to take revenge. Ileira and Aglaia play without seeming to realise the tragedy that is about to befall them.

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