Rebuild a Heart

Genre/Style: The Cure, Goth Rock

Touchstones: The Cure, “Pictures of You,” “Friday, I’m in Love,” “Boys Don’t Cry”

Themes:

Myth: Pygmalion

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 10.243-297 (8 AD)

Read Ovid's version of the myth in Latin at the Perseus Project (ed. Hugo Magnus 1892)
Read A.S. Kline's English translation at the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection