Ovid's Metamorphoses and the end of the Anthropocene

What is the connection between Ovid and the still warm corpse of the Anthropocene? There seems to be hardly any, actually. Indeed, Ovid’s perspective in the Metamorphoses appears markedly distinct and diametrically opposed to the narratives predominant in Anthropocene discourse. In the world of the Metamorphoses, humans do not reign supreme over the Earth; rather, they are depicted as fragile and susceptible beings, subject to the caprices of gods who, akin to the emperors Augustus and Tiberius – whose authority Ovid had experienced firsthand – whimsically and arbitrarily exert their control over the cosmos.