Death Sentence In Ovid's Metamorphosis

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On the other hand, metamorphoses in classical literature represented a death sentence in a way. In Ovid’s “Metamorphosis,” Daphne’s tale highlights the unintended consequences of metamorphosis where her father had to transform her instantly into a laurel bough. Her woes truly began with Phoebus’s inconsiderate remarks to Cupid following his victory over the Python “with a plague-ridden belly Cupid was unable to dispatch (Ovid 445-452). Furiously, Cupid dispatched two arrows: a love arrow towards Phoebus and a repulsion arrow towards Daphne so that she rejected Phoebus’ advances towards her (Ovid 490-500). Ironically, Daphne had requested her divine father, Peneus, to allow her to remain a virgin forever in the same way Diana had requested of
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