Ovid’s version of Daphne and Apollo and the Genesis story are both very different yet very similar. Ovid’s story tells a tale of a tragic love story in which there are many gods who have a sense of rivalry or superiority amongst one each other, which is why Apollo speaks to Cupid the way he does. In Genesis a story of creation is being told. There is one God and He is able to create everything from nothing. When doing so all God has to do is speak and the element/ object is formed, but when creating mankind God forms him and breathes into him then allowed Adam to name all the other animals making mankind superior to all the other creations. Both stories also have a common element when it comes to trees. In Ovid’s story Daphne becomes a tree
