Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses, by Ovid, is unique compared to both Genesis and Gilgamesh for a number of reasons, despite it being a creationist story and featuring a flood. Primarily, the location differs greatly from Sumeria or anywhere in the middle east, but instead comes from Rome. The change in location switches the pantheon to the Greco-Roman Gods, such as Jove. One of the more interesting facets of this story was how humanity repopulated the Earth, which involved the two survivors of the flood threw stones over their shoulders, and from which people would spring fully formed. Ovid points the reason for this occuring was due to the Earth Mother having unlimited potential for giving life.

Another interesting aspect of this story was the amount of unnatural acts perpitrated by the Gods against the mortals. While all stories featured the Gods punishing humanity as a whole, Metamorphoses was the only story that seemed to blame the Gods with attacking individual mortals. It seemed to make these Gods more relatable, since they too can fall prey to petty squabbles and fallacies that plague mankind as a whole.