AND BONUS  In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Byron compares Rome to this figure "of nations," while, in one speech, Hamlet compares his mother's tears to those of this figure.  
AND BONUS  In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Byron compares Rome to this figure "of nations," while, in one speech, Hamlet compares his mother's tears to those of this figure.  In one story, she provoked the jealousy of her sister-in-law Aedon, who accidentally killed her own son Itylus and was subsequently turned into a nightingale, while she was also sometimes associated with Phoroneus, either as his mother, daughter, or consort.  The husband of (*) Amphion, she was the daughter of a Phyrigian king and ruled over the city of Tantalus, and, after her most notable incident, she was turned into a stone formation in Mt. Sipylon.  Her children, including Ismenos, Alphenor, and Ilioneus, were all killed by Apollo and Artemis after she cut short a festival honoring Leto. For 10 points, name this woman from Greek myth who boasted of her seven sons and seven daughters.
AND BONUS  In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Byron compares Rome to this figure "of nations," while, in one speech, Hamlet compares his mother's tears to those of this figure.  
{Niobe}