Answer :
Jupiter revealed that the giants' plan of trying to reach the skies where the gods reside. This, in short, was like trying to overthrow the gods which is how Lycaon was also trying to deceive Jupiter by trying to deceive him in eating human flesh.
Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is an epic narrative about the creation of the world as we know today till the deification of Caesar. The narrative poem is more like a mythological-historical narration that retells the history of the world.
- Jupiter, or Zeus, was the father of the gods and goddess in Roman and Greek mythologies.
- In Book I of the narrative poem, Ovid recalls the crime of the giants as well as Lycaon.
- Lycaon tried to make Zeus/Jupiter consume a human flesh by serving him meat from the human sacrifice.
- For this, Zeus made him insane and Lycaon began to think and behave like a wolf, thus, began the story of the werewolves.
- Likewise, the gaints had planned to reach the skies, "Hills pil'd on hills, on mountains mountains lie, To make their mad approaches to the skie."
- This made Jupiter so angry that he hurled his thunderbolt and destroyed the giants.
- The father of the gods declared, "When I my self, who no superior know, I, who have Heav'n and Earth at my command, Have been attempted by Lycaon's hand?"
The crimes of Lycaon and the giants were against the wishes of the gods, especially Jupiter. This was what resulted in the anger of Jupiter and the destruction by the father of the gods.
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