In his legend of Apollo and Daphne (Metamorphoses 1.452-567) Ovid deforms and figure. He degrades the sun-god, lowering him to the level of a comic strips the Olympian of his divine powers and solemnity and transforms him into a human lover. Foolish in his urgency to capture the elusive Daphne, the deity enters more and more into the realm of comedy. Phoebus appears next in the guise of a predatory hound and lastly as a mechanized figure clutching a tree. Descending, as in a chain of being, the god Apollo becomes human, animal, and machine. Ovid deprives the narrative of all qualities which might have endowed the sun-god with human pathos or tragedy. Apollo is clearly the foolish lover in contrast to Daphne who is not comic and who acts to mend the "split” between her alluring body, which had attracted Apollo, and her virgin self. To preserve her identity, her conception of herself as virgin, she surrenders her body to metamorphosis.Fil: Barnard, Mary E. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval “José Luis Romero”; Argentina.