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In the story of Apollo and Daphne, Apollo mocks the idol Cupid, underestimating delight ins power. Cupids scorn is returned, and Apollo is shot with one of the love-gods arrows, finding himself completely obsessed with Daphne, who by Cupids power then spurns solely Of his advances. His unrequited love makes his desire for her that much stronger, to the point that he smokenot stop pursuing her, and that pursuit simply makes her further disgusted with him, pushing her to flee more strongly.Even after(prenominal) Daphne novice Pennes transforms her into a tree in an effort to preserve her chastity, Apollo loved her still (1082) and adorned himself with bits of her new body. Even without any trace of her once charming body left, his crazed desire did not end, and in her new body, he saw what he precious to see her agreement and acceptance of him, when she shook her branches and seemed to nod her summit in assent (1082). Several books later, Ovid presents the stories of the love o f Pygmalion and his descendents.Though Familial rejected love of women because of the lives of sordid indecency and numerous defects of character (1 1 04), he was unprepared for the necessity of love. lack this love, when he created his ivory statue, he gazed in amazement, burning with love for what was in likeness a body (1 104). afterward his statue was transformed by Venus into a woman, his family line continued, and his great granddaughter, Myrrh, would again demonstrate the irresistible constitution 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 infatuated with her ether that she finally came to the point where she had decided to die if she could not possess him, (1108) and attempts suicide.Her nurse lettuce her from taking h er own life, 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. respectable as with a human, the goddess is so swept away by her emotions that everything other than him becomes completely meaningless. Even her old lifestyle changes completely for her lover, as she ignores her former mode of unstressed self-indulgence Now she goes roaming with him through timberland and up mountains and over the scrubby rocks (11 1 1). Even Venus, the goddess of love her self, is still subject to loves rower.When Adonis at long last dies, she transforms what remains of his blood into a simple flower -? so unlike his original, virile form for timelessness rebooking and perishing, that she may forever mourn him. Although the situations presented are fanciful, their fundamental truths remain. Love is necessary to survival and because its so irresistible, it is improbably powerful powerful enough 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 driven by it.