Analyzes selections from the Metamorphoses Ovid, focusing in part on the four functions of a myth: cultural insight, religious insight, models for behaviors, and insight into human psychology.

Ovid uses metamorphosis in his epic "Metamorphoses" to explain the creation and existence of many common creatures, plants, and other things in the natural and supernatural worlds. A focus in this essay is that people are plants, metaphorically, and that Apollo acts as the gardener. Each of the transformations that the characters underwent are fitting, proper, and have a more profound implication and motive than simply transformation from one form to another.

This essay is about how Zeus/Jupiter differs in character in Greek and Roman culture. I compare Hesiod's Theogany and Ovid's metamorphoses.

Compares Ovid's the Metamorphoses and Dante's Purgatorio. Describes how each piece of literature attempts to arrive at a truth concerning the essence of human existence. Considers how each author differed in their beliefs and attitudes toward the concept of divinity.

The stories: "Callisto and Jove", "Daphne and Apollo", and "Diana and Actaeon" written by Ovid in "The Metamorphoses" relate different themes of chastity, love and revenge. Love changes people, as does the need for revenge; ut change is part of life.