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In the report of Apollo and Daphne, Apollo mocks the god Cupid, underestimating extols power. Cupids scorn is returned, and Apollo is shot with one of the love-gods arrows, finding himself wholly haunt with Daphne, who by Cupids power thus spurns all Of his advances. His unrequited love makes his need for her that much stronger, to the point that he sewernot stop pursuing her, and that pursuit solely makes her further disgusted with him, pushing her to flee more strongly. steady after Daphne become Pennes trans manikins her into a tree in an effort to preserve her chastity, Apollo loved her still (1082) and decorate himself with bits of her new eubstance. Even without any trace of her once gorgeous body left, his crazed desire did not end, and in her new body, he apothegm what he wanted to see her agreement and acceptance of him, when she shook her branches and seemed to motion her summit in assent (1082). Several books later, Ovid presents the stories of the love of Pygm alion and his descendents.Though Familial jilted love of women because of the lives of sordid indecency and numerous defects of character (1 1 04), he was unprepared for the extremity of love. Lacking this love, when he created his ivory statue, he gazed in amazement, burning with love for what was in likeness a body (1 104). After his statue was modify by genus Venus into a woman, his family line continued, and his great granddaughter, sweet cicely, would again demonstrate the irresistible disposition of love.This time it would not be Cupid, but the Furies that would doom the characters, as Myrrh found herself tragically lusting after her father, Cinemas. Despite knowing that her culture condemned such a relationship, her struggle against this perversion was unsuccessful and she found herself so fire with her ether that she finally came to the point where she had decided to die if she could not bear him, (1108) and attempts suicide.Her nurse stops her from taking her own lif e, and after persuasion, aids in bringing Myrrh and Cinemas together while the father was in a drunken state. After her incest was discovered, she was forced to flee. Her desire was undeterred even then and in her sorrow and fear of retribution, she begged to be released from her struggle and like Daphne, was transformed into a tree. The tale of Venus and Adonis, however tragic, is perhaps the most beautiful f these three, as it explores the power of love to change even a goddess.After being struck accidentally by Cupids arrow, Venus falls completely in love with Myrrhs son, Adonis. Just as with a human, the goddess is so brush away by her emotions that everything other than him becomes completely meaningless. Even her old life-style changes completely for her lover, as she ignores her former mode of unstressed self-indulgence instanter she goes roaming with him through woods and up mountains and over the scrubby rocks (11 1 1). Even Venus, the goddess of love herself, is still su bject to loves rower.When Adonis ultimately dies, she transforms what remains of his strain into a simple flower -? so unlike his original, virile form for eternity rebooking and perishing, that she may forever mourn him. Although the situations presented are fanciful, their fundamental truths remain. live is necessary to survival and because its so irresistible, it is incredibly powerful powerful copious to drive gods to madness and mortals to suicide. Though we may underestimate it, all can be subject to loves power, and all life and death are impelled by it.