Abuse And Trickery In Ovid's Metamorphoses

OVID’s Metamorphoses In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, men are shown as the dominant force and some women are shown to be conniving during Ovid’s time. This has led to different forms of abuse against women and trickery against men in the book. Some of the forms of abuse and trickery are still common to our own time. An analysis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, reveals how rape, cheating, and incest is seen as an excuse to show love, to the point that the men would gloat about it openly. When it just truly the use of abuse and trickery to get what you want Firstly, in the tale “Apollo and Daphne”, Apollo is forced to fall in love with Daphne due to Cupid’s arrow striking him. After many failed attempts trying to persuade Daphne to love him. Apollo chased

“Having intuited his wife’s approach, Jove had already metamorphosed Io into a gleaming heifer” (Ovid 660). All because Jupiter wanted to hide his crime from his wife he turned Io to a heifer. “Juno surmises that such a cloud on an otherwise sunny day means that her husband is philandering—as he often does—and tries to catch him in the act”. (Cook “Metamorphoses”). In Cook’s analysis it is shown that this was not the first time and does not sound like the last time that Jupiter would cheat on his wife. Compared to recent times, Juno anger at Jupiter was not of a wife who was angry at her husband cheating, but of a wife angry at her husband coming home late every day. Which means no matter how many times Jupiter cheated, with the right words he could be forgiven.

The goddess “Juno (queen of the gods and Jove's sister and wife)” (Cook, “Metamorphoses”) and Jupiter, it is written that they are both brother and sister, which is considered incest. But in “Pygmalion” it was written that the love Myrrha had for her father was a crime. Which means that during the time of the story, incest was considered a crime when it was between the parents and children but was allowed between