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An Excerpt Of Ovid's Metamorphose

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This piece was inspired by an excerpt of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in book number six which describes the slaughter of Niobe’s seven sons and seven daughters. Niobe was the queen of Thebes, married to King Amphion. She lived an extreme life of luxury and often bragged about how great her life was. One day the goddess Leto, also know was Latona, heard Niobe boasting about how much better her life was. Niobe could not stop comparing her extreme fertility, hence her 14 children, to Leto mere two offspring. Niobe told the people of Thebes they should be worshiping her instead of Leto. In response, Leto’s two offspring, Apollo, the god of music, and Artemis, also known as Diana, the goddess of the hunt, came to Thebes and murdered Niobe’s children with

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