There is a strong connection of love and lust between mythology and human nature in Mandelbaum’s Metamorphoses of Ovid. Ancient civilizations were subject to natural changes and how much they relied on nature. They adored nature to such a degree, to the point that they designed divine beings, who encapsulated the nature itself, to secure it. How about we consider, for instance, the Roman Flora, image for nature, blooms and fruitfulness, the Greek Ceres, likewise called Demeter or the Goddess of Earth who were human reciprocals of the normal components.
Metamorphoses of Ovid’s expanded upon the topic to speak of those changed into new entities and, very often, those entities came from the natural world. Emblematic is the anecdote of Daphne e Apollo: fated by Cupid’s love-arrow, sees Daphne, who flees him because she’s been fated by Cupid’s love-repelling arrow and denies his love. Apollo pleads and persists, and Daphne cries out to her father for help. He responds by transforming her into a laurel tree. …show more content…
Despite the regular conviction of his peers, who attempted to rule love and nature with enchantment and witchcraft, Ovid in his Remedia Amoris (The Cures for Love) expresses the uselessness of "harmful herbs" or "magic plants" as an alleviation from affection's works.
From the beginning of The Metamorphoses of Ovid, humans are portrayed as having a special relationship with the nature world. This is because they are made in the image of the gods, out of mud that still preserves traces of heavenly seeds from when the universe