DaphneANCIENT_Hyginus

Hyginus Fabulae, 203 203. Daphne


      When Apollo was persuing the girl Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, she sought protection from Earth, who took the girl in and changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo then snapped off a branch and put it upon his own head.
     — translation RTMacfarlane
     

203. Daphne.

      Apollo Daphnen Penei fluminis filiam cum uirginem persequeretur, illa a Terra praesidium petit, quae eam recepit in se et in arborem laurum commutauit. Apollo inde ramum fregit et in caput imposuit.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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