He fell in love with her not by accident, but by the fury of Cupid. A boy with wings shots his arrows to the hearts of gods and peoples.Īpollo and Daphne (Metamorphoses, Book 1)Īpollo falls in love with Peneus' daughter Daphne. Ovid leaves the motivational line of this story to Cupid who is the god of love. The story is a part of the first book which clarifies how the crown originated as the symbol of triumph. He also emphasized that the games started so the winners could be rewarded with a crown of oak leaves. Ovid uses this story to introduce the erotic motive into the Daphne's metamorphosis. They were named after the dragon Python that was the son of the Earth and guarded the sanctuary in Delphi. In Delphi the Pythian games came to life every fourth year, starting with the Olympics in 586 B.C. The mythological story about Apollo and Daphne is interpreted as the first erotic metamorphosis. Every form of weakness, for example lack of own opinion, are shown in a negative way while the virtues like courage are always shown in the opposite way despite the fact that they are motivate with selfish intentions like revenge. “Metamorphoses” have a clear, moral lesson because in them every flaw is being punished in some way, especially if that flaw is thoughtlessness. The relationships between them are dramatic and seldom have a happy ending because gods are by nature passionate, ruthless, prone to revenge and egoistic. In “Metamorphoses” the gods' lives, their rises and falls are being shown in a grotesque way. One of their special powers is the power of metamorphosis which allows them to transform into something else in order to get their revenge, get something they want or to transform other people and gods so they could punish them or ease someone's tragic ending. The stories are about love troubles, have a lot of dramatic turns, betrayal, doubts and everything unrolls amongst gods. “Metamorphoses” is consisted out of 246 stories of mythological thematic.
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