Ovid's Metamorphoses and Our Trauma

I’m not even halfway through and I feel I have so much to say about this work, and what it says about us, as a species and as a society. I can see why it is that works like this keep getting read generation after generation: it holds a mirror to ourselves. It show us our reality through a slightly different lens, forcing us to notice what we would’ve otherwise not paid attention to.

Topics I’m intersting in discussing:

  • Trauma and Transformation
  • Juno as the ultimate ’not a girls girl’ archetype
  • Human Condition: Fate, Sin and Free Will
  • Human Condition: How it becomes more clear once we compare it gods
    • gods have will, humans subject to fate. although not even gods are immune to fate
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