The reading Metamorphoses emphasis change and transformation since the beginning of time. In particular in the poem, “The Creation”, the reader is introduced to how the world and man was created through mythology. Gods and Goddess is a strong belief the Romans have and it shows in Ovid’s style of writing. He says, “Now when that god (whichever one it was) had given chaos form, dividing it in parts which he arranged, he molded earth into the shape of an enormous globe, so that it should be uniform.” (1077) He is saying that the world man lives on, is made in the shape of a sphere by a god so that it will always remain the same. Ovid writes different poems about the gods such as, “Apollo and Daphne”.
Ovid’s poems remind me of many different readings because in the books such as, The Odyssey and The Aeneid, there is always the mentioning about Apollo, Cupid, Aphrodite’s, etc., but the reader doesn’t really know their stories. The story about the goddess, Daphne’s, love life reminds me of Penelope’s (The Odyssey). Daphne says, “Many men sought her, but she spurned her suitors, loath to have anything to do with men.” (Ovid, 1080) She is saying that a lot a of men want her, but she doesn’t want to be with anyone and her father is forcing her into marriage just like Penelope was being forced into being married with one of the many suitors who wanted to be with her. I enjoy reading about the Greek’s belief in gods but Ovid adds an interesting twist by using the gods through the process of transformation such as he did in the poem The Creation.
