White Ash Flies presents The Sorrows of Niobe, from Book 6 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, published in 8 CE, in which the goddess Latona makes Niobe pay dearly for her presumption, just as in the preceding story, Arachne was punished by Minerva for her presumption: surpassing the goddess in a weaving competition. The translation into English from Latin is Arthur Golding’s, published in 1567.
