genesis
Genesis vs. Ovid’s metamorphoses The flood stories told in the Genesis and Ovid’s metamorphoses are similar in parts where man has done so much evil, corruption and violence that God or Gods decided to destroy the human race and the earth with them. In Genesis, God decided to erase human beings by flooding earth and killing every man, beast, reptile and bird. Noah who won the lord’s trust and was known as a righteous man was asked by god to build an ark, “Make yourself an ark with ribs of cypress…you shall bring living creatures of every kind…two of each kind, male and a female.” Noah was told to take with him his wife, three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives.