 Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero.Apollo comes in for particular ridicule as Ovid shows how irrational love can confound the god out of reason.The work as a whole inverts the accepted order, elevating humans and human passions while making the gods and their desires and conquests objects of low humor.