Zeus is a boss cleaning up everyone's messes/ playboy with some responsibility. All of the transformations are him giving people random other jobs to get them out of the way.
Metamorphoses:
Deucalion and Pyrrha: earth floods, rocks to people (liquidate one company, start another one)
Io: Io into heifer (mascot costume), maybe something with Argus
Phaethons: rides chariot (spoiled kid, uses connections to get job at company?), dies (gets fired), sisters turn into poplar trees(?), Cycnus into swan (costume? or some "promotion")
Callisto: Callisto into bear (mascot costume), Callisto and Arcas into constellations (retirement?)
Semele: Zeus shows true form, Semele burns up, Bacchus survives (shows her his true party lifestyle, she gets burned out on it, Zeus raises party baby)
Apollo and Phaethon. Source
Bibliography:
Metamorphoses by Ovid, link to reading page
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