Ovid portrays women as being of a similar type. Discuss with close reference to books seven and eight
Ovid was born into a wealthy family in 43 B.C. in Italy. Metamorphoses which means change is an epic poem originally written in Latin involving a collection of stories, which revolve around the theme of metamorphoses.
In seems in book 7 an 8 that the majority of the female characters are not entirely pleasant they create most of the mishaps and the tragedy that happens throughout the books. For instance in the story of Jason and Medea iat the beginning of book seven Medea falls hopelessly in love with Jason having only just met him. She betrays her father for Jason causing him and the rest of her family pain “received from her forthwith the herbs” Meaning Medea helped Jason by giving him magic herbs. Returning home with Medea Jason leaves Medea and marries the daughter of the King of Corinth. And in a brutal fit of rage Medea kills Jason’s knew wife and her own sons. The brutality and jealousy of not only Medea but women as a whole is apparent throughout ‘Metamorphoses.’ We are later shown this in Althea who in avenging her brother’s death murders her son in an equally brutal way.
