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Theodore Sturgeon, "Niobe," short story published posthumously 1994 in The Ultimate Egoist, ed. P. Williams (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1994).

Leslie Olsen Macfarlane, A Sixteenth Century Niobe in a Twentieth Century Short Story: Ovid's long reach from Augustan Rome, Brigham Young University Honors Thesis (2010). — "... examines the relationship between the short story 'Niobe,' ... and Ovid's Metamorphoses and argues that it substantially deepens the case Sturgeon presents in his story that writers who over-emphasize grief create a ruinious legacy for themselves, while writers who esteem ardor and mirth above emotional gravity are therefore superior. Six parallels between 'Niobe' and the Metamorphoses play off of Sturgeon's incarnation of the poet Mary Sidney Herbert (1561 - 1621) to strengthen Sturgeon's point."