Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most original and insightful masterpieces of world literature. The genre-polylectic and rhetorically poetic epic, condensed in a grandiose manner as a synthesis and reinterpretation of the history of humanity based on metamorphic myths, reprocesses myth as an anthropological, cultural, and political commentary, thus opening up the field of "mythical method" in Poetry, which was to receive significant upgrading from the modernist poets of the 20th century. The poet unfolds the adventure of the human soul, starting in the mythical period (Books I-V) with the harsh struggle of man with the primal instincts of love and death, the desperate struggle with chance and tragic fate. In the heroic period (Books V-XI), man becomes an autonomous moral protagonist who discovers the logic of skill, but more often ends up being a hostage to his own bad calculations, selfishness, and arrogance. The decline of the human species is marked by the socially and politically manipulated subject of the historical period (Books XII-XV), the man of mass society with all his alienated vulgarity and heartlessness. The purpose of the work is twofold: a timeless journey through the stages of the "human condition" and resistance to the monumental and inhumane Roma aeterna of Augustus. The Metamorphoses are structured on the contrast between power and love.