Daphne
Role: huntress · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 20
Daphne, daughter of Ladon, was a huntress. In Book 8, Chapter 20, Leucippus (son of Œnomaus) disguised himself as a girl and joined her hunting party; he “soon won her strong friendship.” When Daphne and the other maidens went to bathe in the Ladon, they discovered his sex and killed him with javelins and daggers.
The same chapter also recounts Apollo’s love for Daphne and says he was jealous of Leucippus’s happiness in love.
Relationship record
Life events
- Leucippus disguised himself as a girl and joined Daphne’s hunting party.(Book 8 · Chapter 20)
- With: Leucippus (son of Œnomaus) Œnomaus
- “He let his hair grow to the Alpheus, and put on woman’s dress and went to Daphne with his hair arranged like a girl’s, and said he was the daughter of Œnomaus, and would like to go a hunting with Daphne.”
- Daphne and the maidens discovered Leucippus’s sex and killed him.(Book 8 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Ladon)
- With: Leucippus (son of Œnomaus)
- “they stripped Leucippus against his will, and discovering his sex they stabbed him and killed him with javelins and daggers.”
Book 8 · Chapter 20
- admirer: Leucippus (son of Œnomaus) “Leucippus who was enamoured of Daphne, and hotly wooed her for his wife”
- friends with Leucippus (son of Œnomaus) “he soon won her strong friendship”
- courtship with Apollo “they who sing of Apollo’s love for Daphne”
- admirer: Apollo “But they who sing of Apollo’s love for Daphne add that Apollo was jealous of Leucippus’ happiness in love.”
- with Leucippus (son of Œnomaus) (Daphne participated in the killing of Leucippus.) “So when Daphne and the other maidens desired to bathe in the Ladon and swim about, they stripped Leucippus against his will, and discovering his sex they stabbed him and killed him with javelins and daggers.”
Book 10 · Chapter 7
- admirer: Apollo (Apollo was enamoured of Daphne.) “Apollo was enamoured of Daphne the daughter of Ladon”
- parent: Ladon “Daphne the daughter of Ladon”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.