Ancient Statues are Now Crumbling Exposing Bone and Tendon and Blood - Mudfossil University

Dec 5, 2025
The Gods could transform into anything they wanted...
"Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the Metamorphoses. Ovid raises its significance explicitly in the opening lines of the poem: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora; ("I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities;").[26] Accompanying this theme is often violence, inflicted upon a victim whose transformation becomes part of the natural landscape.["
"There is a great variety among the types of transformations that take place: from human to inanimate objects (Nileus), constellations (Ariadne's Crown), animals (Perdix), and plants (Daphne, Baucis and Philemon); from animals (ants) and fungi (mushrooms) to human; from one sex to another "
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