Comparing Ovid's Metamorphoses And The Book Of Genesis
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The perpetual questions about the existence of man and the creation of the world continue to be discussed today. Both Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the book of Genesis in the Bible explain the creation through different stories that have some glaring similarities. The stories’ blatant similarities are that they both tell the story of creation and they also tell the story of a great flood that wiped out the majority of human kind and other living creatures. However, even thought the overall plots are similar in both tales, there are many small differences between the two that differentiates the general take-away of the story.
For instance, in Ovid’s creation description, he more so focuses about explaining the process of creation as it happens,