A "creation account" can be defined as a symbolic narrative that describes the manner in which the world came into existence and explains how life came to populate it. Almost every culture around the world has its own version of events that led to the creation of earth and of mankind, and these accounts lay the foundation for the values and attitudes of that society by explaining the role of man in the world and assigning values to various forms of life such as plants and animals. They also often explain the forces of nature, such as floods and storms, in relation to the all-powerful creator or creators in hopes to better understand their environment. Two of the most studied cultural viewpoints, the biblical and Greco-Roman traditions, are no exception to this pattern of influence. The biblical tradition details the events of creation and decline of man through the first several chapters of the Book of Genesis in both the Hebrew and Christian bibles. The Greco-Roman tradition contains several different literary accounts, including the description of the events of creation and the ages after in Metamorphoses by Ovid. Through the detailed description of the world as it came into being, the acts of God or gods and the role of man, these creation myths offer insight into each society’s opinion of the human, animal, and natural world. To begin, both traditions define the human world as superior and most significant in the creation narratives by relaying the words and actions of the creators as man was formed; however, they differ in how and why man was formed. In Genesis, the first and second chapters offer two different explanations for the creation of man, and each explanation provides an altered view of the importance and place of mankind. In the first chapter, man is modeled after God’s own image which implies he is superior to the other creatures God has produced, and this role of superiority is confirmed when God states man was made “to rule over all wild animals on earth” (Gen. 1:26). The second chapter provides a humbler view of the human world as man is created from the dust of the earth and is put into the Garden of Eden to “till it and care for it” ( Gen. 2:16). However, this account also states how Adam was allowed to name all the creatures of the earth (Gen. 2:20) which implies that even though man is just the caretaker of the earth, not the ruler, he is still above the animals. Even though, Genesis provides two varied reports of the origin of man, both provide an anthropocentric view of creation. The Greco-Roman tradition claims that man was either made from the divine seed of the creator or from the newly fashioned earth, but in both cases, humans were again created in the likeness of the creator (Ovid, p.31). In this account, Ovid describes how man is the