Metamorphoses, Ralph Monfort

Ovid's Metamorphoses was written in dactylic hexameter which gives the myth an epic poem feeling to it. Ovid stresses throughout the myth, how things came to be through a gradual metamorphoses. In the description of the how humans were created, he writes that air, water and fire combine together eventually become man. In the second creation, the surviving humans had to throw stones behind their backs which in time transformed in human being. Also, Ovid depicts the gods to have human-like emotions. For instance, he gives the gods emotions such as jealousy, lust, anger and love. I feel that its interesting that the myth opens up with the idea of nature creating the world rather than talking about an all powerful god creating the world. This separates Metamorphoses from Genesis and Gligamesh.