Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Metamorphoses, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Metamorphosis
Humanity vs. Nature
Love and Destruction
Gods and Humans
Time, Fate, and Poetry
Summary
Analysis
Aeneas, a survivor of Troy, takes his father Anchises and the statues of Troy’s gods and flees across the sea with a small group of Trojans. They stop at Thrace, but quickly leave and head to an island called Delos.
Although Troy was obliterated, Aeneas escapes the wreckage unseen by the Greeks. This gives Troy a small yet powerful lifeline through which the city can be rebuilt and transformed.
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