Daphne
Also known as: Nymph / daughter of Peneus / virgin · Role: nymph · First appears: Fable 12
Life events
- Cupid wounds Apollo with desire and Daphne with aversion to love.(Fable12 · 📍 Parnassus)
- Daphne requests perpetual virginity, and Peneus grants her request.(Fable12)
- With: Peneus
- “Allow me, my dearest father, to enjoy perpetual virginity; her father, in times, bygone, granted this to Diana.” He indeed complied.”
- Daphne prays for transformation, and her body becomes a laurel tree.(Fable12 · 📍 Peneus)
- With: Peneus
- “Hardly had she ended her prayer, {when} a heavy torpor seizes her limbs; {and} her soft breasts are covered with a thin bark.”
- Apollo declares transformed Daphne his sacred tree and promises her lasting honors.(Fable12)
- With: Apollo
- “But since thou canst not be my wife, at least thou shalt be my tree; my hair, my lyre,[85] my quiver shall always have thee, oh laurel!”
- Daphne refused to listen to Apollo's solicitations.(Fable84)
- With: Apollo
- “the laurel is so styled from the Virgin Daphne, who refused to listen to the solicitations of Apollo.”
Fable 12
- parent: Peneus “Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, was the first love of Phœbus”
- admirer: Apollo “Phœbus falls in love, and he covets an alliance with Daphne, {now} seen by him, and what he covets he hopes for”
- with Cupid (Cupid shoots Daphne with the arrow that repels love.) “This one the God fixed in the Nymph, the daughter of Peneus, but with the other he wounded the {very} marrow of Apollo, through his bones pierced {by the arrow}.”
Fable 84
- admirer: Apollo (Apollo solicited Daphne, who refused him.) “the laurel is so styled from the Virgin Daphne, who refused to listen to the solicitations of Apollo.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.