In his poem "The Metamorphoses", Ovid depicts the gods as selfish and inconsiderate beings who impose themselves on the life of a victim without distrust in order to quench their sexual desires. In Virgil's poem "The Aeneid", he describes the gods as honorable and useful to subjects in their earthly progress. It is not known for certain whether the gods actually abused their powers or whether they used them for the benefit of the pagans, but it is clear that the gods were depicted differently by Ovid and Virgil, and perhaps by several peoples. pagans in antiquity.