Metamorphoses

I read two stories the other day, written by Ovid, a Roman writer born in the year after Julius's assassination. Both of the two stories came from the epic, Metamorphoses.
One is Apollo and Daphne. Cupid shoots Apollo with his arrow and makes him fall madly in love with nymph, Daphne. However, it is Diana, standing for virginity and freedom, whom she emulates. When Apollo pursues her, she flees and does not halt-not even when he pleads. And then the young God loses his patience and wastes no time to chase his prey. Daphne is fast but Apollo is faster. Just when he is at her shoulders, she runs to her father, a river God, for help. So the river God turns his lovely daughter into a laurel.
The other story is Io and Jove.(Jove is like Zeus in Greek) Jove catches sight of a beautiful nymph, Io. She is frightened and flees away from him. But powerful Jove stops powerless Io's flight; he rapes chaste Io. Meanwhile, Juno, wife of Jove, is passing by. For fear that jealous Juno may find out his treachery, Jove immediately turns Io into a heifer. What's worse? Juno asks the lovely heifer as a gift. And she has Argus(the hundred-eye giant who never sleeps with all his eyes closed) to be Io's guardian because she still suspects treachery. Io is now a human soul within an animal's body. What a torture! Jove cannot endure his Io's suffering no more and he summons Mercury and instructs him to murder Argus. And so does Mercury killed Argus. But now Juno is full of rage and strikes Io at once. Juno hurts Io and drives the frightened girl across the world-a fugitive. Jove pleads his wife and promises that Io would cause no harm to her again. So with the goddess' rage appeased, Io regains her form she had before. She was as lovely as before, except the whiteness of her flesh. And after all the suffering, poor Io becomes a celebrated goddess, revered by crowds clothed in white linen: Isis.
For me, the two story show the oppression of the powerful on the powerless. The world is never fair.