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Power Of Gods And Goddesses In Ovid's Metamorphoses

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In Greek and Roman mythology, the role of gods and goddesses were very influential to the people. Praising and sacrificing for the gods was an important part of everyday life in this culture, and any opposition of the gods were returned with punishment. The power of the gods is shown in Charles Martin’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In Book VI of Metamorphoses, which is rightly subtitled “Of Praise and Punishment”, three specific instances of the gods’ smite are shown through the conflict between Minerva and Arachne, Niobe and Latona, and the ill-fated marriage of Tereus and Procne.
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