Ovid’s Complex Notion of Change

Initially, Ovid’s origin of the cosmos resembles that of Plato’s Timaeus. Like Plato, Ovid seeks to oppose a Heraclitian understanding of the universe, which is to say one that is in complete chaos without purpose. From line 10-20 we get a Heraclitian description of the universe with phrases like “Cold wrestled with hot, wet with …