Daphne (mythology)

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Daphne, character from Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.

Quotes on Daphne

Perhaps, if you tasted it once more | The Thousandth Part of The Joys, | Who tastes a beloved heart by loving, | You would say, repentantly, sighing: | All time is lost, | That in love you don't spend. (Torquato Tasso)

Note

R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek proto-form *dakw-(n)-. Daphne is etymologically related to Latin laurus, "laurel tree" (Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, pp. 306–7).
Pausanias, 10.7.8
Hyginus, Fabulae 203; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.452
Pausanias, 8.20.1 & 10.7.8; Philostrarus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.16; Statius, Thebaid 4.289; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.386
Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 6; First Vatican Mythographer 2.216
Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes 6.143
Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15 citing Diodorus of Elaea, fr. & Phylarchus, fr. as the sources
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.452; the treatment is commonly viewed as an Ovidian invention: see H. Fränkel, Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds (1945), p. 79, or E. Doblhofer, "Ovidius Urbanus: eine Studie zum Humor in Ovids Metamorphosen" Philologus 104 (1960), p. 79ff; for the episode as a witty transposition of Calvus' Io, see B. Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet, 2nd ed., 1970, p. 102
Translation, line 456, Loeb Classical Library
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.452
"The Metamorphoses". Archived from the original on April 19, 2005. Retrieved 2017-11-17. Translation by A. S. Kline, 2000.
[Naso], Ovid [Publius Ovidius (2008-09-11), "Metamorphoses", in Melville, A. D; Kenney, Edward J (eds.), Oxford World's Classics: Ovid: Metamorphoses, Oxford University Press, pp. 1–380, doi:10.1093/oseo/instance.00080405, ISBN 9780199537372
J. L. Lightfoot, tr. Parthenius of Nicaea: the poetical fragments and the Erōtika pathēmata 1999, notes to XV, Περὶ Δάφνης, pp. 471ff.
King Amyclas is also the father of another of Apollo's lover, Hyacinthus.
Lightfoot (1999), p. 471.
Pausanias, 8.20.2
Pausanias, 8.20.3
Pausanias, 10.7.8
Pausanias, 8.20.4
Hyginus, Fabulae 203
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.16
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33.217-220
Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Hermes and Apollo II
Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Love and Zeus
MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “TWO LOVES I HAVE : DIOSCORUS, APOLLO, DAPHNE, HYACINTH.” Byzantion, vol. 77, Peeters Publishers, 2007, pp. 305–14.
R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek proto-form *dakw-(n)-. Daphne is etymologically related to Latin laurus, "laurel tree" (Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, pp. 306–7).
G. Shipley, "The Extent of Spartan Territory in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods", The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2000.
Pausanias, 3.24.8; Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus, Historiae Deorum Gentilium, Basel, 1548, Syntagma 10, is noted in this connection in Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon, Benjamin Hederich, 1770
Karl Kerenyi, The Gods of the Greeks, 1951:141
Built over 8th century walls and apsidal building beneath the naos, all betokening a Geometric date for the sanctuary.
Richardson, Rufus B. (July 1895). "A Temple in Eretria". The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts. 10 (3): 326–337. doi:10.2307/496539. JSTOR 496539.; Paul Auberson, Eretria. Fouilles et Recherches I, Temple d'Apollon Daphnéphoros, Architecture (Bern, 1968). See also Plutarch, Pythian Oracle, 16.

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