![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Ovid love may be a force that makes people and gods forget about moral principles and turn into a self-destructive feeling. Nevertheless, the author represents love not only as of the feeling which encourages gods and people to make devoted actions. However, the grief of people in love is one of the most preferred Ovid’s subjects. Thereby, Ovid ridiculed gods, as long as they are attached to the same passions as people, and behave like people who are very often fooled by the laws of love. Even gods can feel the pain of love: they are highly anthropomorphic creatures. That is why unrequited passion, death of a sweetheart, and parting are constant sources of torment in The Metamorphoses. Still, according to Ovid love is the eternal source of conflicts and is the strongest manifestation of a person, it is the essence of life and its pivot. Love, as the key image of the poem, is the main element of being. In general, there are about two hundred transformations which are represented in two hundred myths. The metamorphoses in the poem are the result of love affairs. The Metamorphoses is a collection of myths about the transformation of gods and ancient heroes into animals and plants. Ovid was the poet who glorified love in his poem: “the main subject of the poem, if one has to specify one, is love rather than metamorphosis” (Galinsky 97). ![]()
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