Daphne

Daphne in Wikipedia

According to Greek myth, Apollo chased the nymph Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter either of Peneus and Creusa in Thessaly,[1] or of the river Ladon in Arcadia.[2] The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses...

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Daphne in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Δάφνη), a fair maiden who is mixed up with various traditions about Apollo. According to Pausanias (10.5.3) she was an Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic oracle to which she had been appointed by Ge. Diodorus (4.66) describes her as the daughter of Teiresias, who is better known by the name of Manto. She was made prisoner in the wa...

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