Tears From a Stone

Genre/Style: U2

Touchstones: U2, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Where the Streets Have No Name”

Themes: Loss, grief, strength, cultural trauma

Myth: Niobe

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 6.146-312 (8 AD)

Read 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