Mutuality Of Marriage In Ovid's Metamorphoses

However, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is not bereft of stories of true married love. In fact, Ovid’s first pair of lovers are the god-fearing and mutually devoted Deucalion and Pyrrha, who are the sole survivors of a great flood sent by wrathful Jupiter to drown out the Earth and all its inhabitants. Only the pious couple, Deucalion and Pyrrha, are able to ride out flood in something comparable to Noah’s ark, and when the waters recede, they repopulate the earth with stones that transform into a tough new race of men and women. Ovid devotes his artistic style to portraying Deucalion and Pyrrha as exempla for mutuality in marriage. Line 325 (‘et superesse virum de tot modo milibus unum’) almost word for word repeats in the following line (‘et superesse