Ovid in Metamorphases said Giant Creatures Created the Natural Landscape

Over 2000yrs ago Ovid wrote of the Creation and Ages of man and much more. His 1st words were about the Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the Metamorphoses. Ovid raises its significance explicitly in the opening lines of the poem: ( I intend to speak of forms changed into new Accompanying this theme is often violence, inflicted upon a victim whose transformation becomes part of the natural landscape