Daphne (mythology)

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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