Apollo and Daphne
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Apollo and Daphne is an Ancient Greek transformation or metamorphosis myth. No written or artistic versions survive from ancient Greek mythology, so it is likely Hellenistic in origin. It was retold b
Roman, Apollo and Daphne, c. 62–79 A.D., fresco from South wall of Casa dell’Efebo, Pompeii showing Apollo holding a sprig of laurel, while Daphne is perhaps dancing. It likely reflects a pre-Ovidian source.
Peter Paul Rubens – Apollo and the Python, 1636–1637
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne.
Apollo and Daphne, fresco from Pompeii, 1st century
Daphne
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Daphne, a figure in Greek mythology, was in various retellings a mortal woman or a nymph, daughter of a river god. The god Apollo fell in love with Daphne and chased her against her wishes, but before
Apollo and Daphne
…was emphatically associated with the laurel before the advent of the Daphne myth." Details vary between different versions, but the beautiful nymph Daphne rejects the love of Apollo and is turned into a tree. The earliest known source of this myth is Parthenius, a Greek poet who lived during the 1st century…
A laurel tree
Apollo (already wearing a laurel wreath) and Daphne, Antakya Archaeological Museum