![]() He spends more time telling us the version where Prometheus gets the credit.He says that human beings definitely came next, but he isn't sure whether they were made by the same god who made everything, or instead by Prometheus, son of Iapetus. Then Ovid lets us pick what comes next-sort of like a choose-your-own-adventure story.Then the god made animals to inhabit all the different regions of the world.Now the stars thought it was safe to come out, so they did.He did some fancy decorating, made the mountains and fields, organized the different regions of the earth and sky, and sent all the different winds to their individual stations.Now that he had gotten everything on the right shelves, so to speak, it was time to put them in order.(That's right, for Ovid the earth is the center of the universe.) Then he let water flow all over it. All this stuff collected at the center of the universe. Below that was where he put all the heavy elements-dirt, rocks, and so on.Below fire came air, a slightly heavier element. He let fire, the lightest element, shoot up to its natural place at the furthest reaches of the universe.Then some god (we aren't told who) came along and put everything in order. ![]()
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