#daphne daughter of peneus

[marcvscicero]

apollo using the leaves of the laurel tree, of daphne’s tree, daphne who had ran so, so far to get away from him, who had begged her father to do anything to save her, who had even still shrunk away from his embrace after she had turned into the tree, is something so evil + rotten to me.

after her clear “no”, emphasised over and over again, after her desperation to escape him, he then uses her leaves and bark to “honour her” in a way that ensures she can never be free of him, must always be touching him, brought with him wherever he goes, part of his “glory” + “victory”.

even after a kind of “death”, even after trying so hard to outrun him that she gives up her life + dreams + family, by doing the only thing she now can, he doesn’t let her go. and now, not only does he have her, but she can’t refuse:

she can’t say “no”, and she can’t pull away.

she can’t even speak.

[woso-dreamzzz]

Little Medics Extras II

What Greek Mythology Character Each Kid Is

Munchkin as Asclepius

God of medicine

Like Asclepius, Munchkin has had a passion for medicine since she was little

Both have a great desire to help people both injured and sick

Duckie as Antigone

Daughter of Oedipus

Both have a great love and draw a lot of strength from their family and loved ones

Willing to circumvent and ignore rules to look after, help and protect those they love

Squish as Daphne

Naiad daughter of either Peneus or Ladon

Ultimately transformed into a laurel tree to escape the god Apollo's unwanted advances

As a Naiad, Daphne was associated with bodies of freshwater and as a dryad, she was associated with the laurel tree

Like Daphne, Squish is closely in tune and loves nature

Squish is very much at home in Daphne's domain

[greekmythssexywoman]

Daphne: Dryad daughter of Peneus (river god) when Apollo fell in love with her she asked her father to helped her and transformed into a laurel tree

Calypso: She is one of Odysseus' lover. He was on her island for 7 years before she accepted she could not overcome his longing for home

[i-spilled-my-soup]

Hi it's me from the Apollo & Daphne comment about Will and Nico in the Asklepios au, I'm not exactly sure what brought me to the comparison but I guess it's the way you sorta described their relationship in one of your other posts(?)

Assuming this is a finite to be written work, the story starts after will and nico have gotten acquainted. nico does his thing, begins as a weird unfriendly guy but after being acquainted becomes a good friend. they bond over losing their siblings and feeling responsible for their deaths, less of a "you did nothing wrong" and more of a "yeah that sucks balls" kind of empathy. then will learns that nico is a child of hades(the guy) and (after an orphic hymn infertility joke) has to fight the urge to use nico to bring people from hades(the place)/keep them from ever going there

in typical nico fashion he disappears like fully. will is reasonably concerned and tries to look for him whenever he isn't practicing and teaching medicine in case of impending war with a neighboring state? this part is funny and i want to say war is the conflict because battle is the usual conflict in the myth and history i've read and also in riordan's series itself. turns out the guy is dead. yippee! (probably some scene where will sees nico but its actually just the ghost or nico visits in a dream or will actually just finds the body preserved in snow. the last one's a little too intense)

That part just reminded me of D&A, Sorry If I'm not making much sense I just got out of school and I'm about to take a nap

Despite her not yet knowing who pursues her, Apollo seems to know exactly who she is, calling, "Wait nymph, daughter of Peneus, I beg you! I who am chasing you am not your enemy." He comments that she is running from him as prey would from a predator, but tells her that he is spurred on by love and a desire to be with her, not destroy her, so she should have pity on him. He then says that he is worried that she will be injured in the chase and cause him guilt, so if she slows down he will too, but she continues. I just see it ???

ohhh im picking up what youre putting down now yeah. the vibe of chase and intentions vs perceptions. the plot is slightly different now so i didnt see the comparison lol

[princessmeepa]

Can you tell the difference game from mine version or LO/RS version

Note that I do not own the characters from the Greek Myth, I was doing this for fun.

My Daphne: Note this is a old art of her that I drawn her, when I was 16.

Daphne is a beautiful naiad nymph, who is the daughter river god Peneus and the naiad nymph Creusa, she is the sister of Menippe, Stilbe and the king Hypseus. She is a loving wife of Apollo and Hyacinth.

Likes: Reading, playing with flower, dancing, listing to Apollo’s songs, listing to her sister in law Artemis’ stories, sending a loving time with Apollo and Hyacinth, baking or cooking, and sometimes getting drunk and wanted to stared a fight with everyone who makes her mad (mostly her sisters or Theseus) but Apollo most likely stop her.

Dislikes: Hunting (because her father made her), snakes, Artemis doing something stupid (like bring the animals at her home), pranks (from Hermes), people mistaking her for a tree nymph, Artemis making too much mess, and Astraeus telling vaguer jokes about her husband.

Personally: She may have a Tsundere personally type, she maybe harsh and cold on the outside, but she is very kind and loving on the inside, she loves her family and her husbands deeply, and she can be over Protective of them.

Friends/Allies: Apollo(Husband), Hyacinth (Friend or co husband), Hermes (Sometimes), Peitho (They can get along just fine), Dionysus (She likes his funny personally), Psyche (saw her as a fun goddess to hang out), Ariadne (same thing with Peitho), Makaria (best friends), Thanatos, Pan (sometimes), Hypnos, Pasithea, Echo (best friends), Demeter, Hades, Persephone, Artemis (if she did’t do something stupid), Crocus, Hebe (She thinks she is cute and she looks like a doll), Hestia (loves her warm personally), Iasion (He is nice guy to her), Ampelos (sometimes), Ganymede, Hecate, the demigods, Selene, Endymion, and Astraeus.

Enemies: Zeus (because he graped Apollo right in front of her, when he was 13), Eros (because he’s the one who shot her with the hate arrow), Hera, Theseus (She hates him for being an a$$hole),Astraeus (sometimes), Cassandra (She hurts Apollo), and Adonis (for being on Eros’ side).

LO’s Daphne

Personally: She is a Naiad nymph turn into a FLOWER NYMPH??? For some reason and she is another little miss goodie two shoes and is the poor Unfortunate Victim of Apollo the bad guy (even known she is cheating on him on a date, with Thanatos) and she is sweet like honey, which makes her boring, even know making her into a tsundere wound be fun.

[rhianna]

Daphne

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44460

A daughter of the River Peneus, or of the Ladon, and the goddess Terra, of whom Apollo became enamored. Daphne fled to avoid the addresses of this god, and was changed into a laurel.

[thewastedpotential]

Apollo and Daphne

The myth says that once Apollo, the god of light and poetry, found Eros, dealing with his bows and arrows. Eros was using bows to struck people into love. Apollo had just won Python, a horrible earth-dragon that was living in the area of Delphi, and had got so arrogant from his victory that he abruptly told Eros to leave war-like weapons to mighty gods like him and stick to his own pastimes, devaluing his duty to inflate love and passion to others.

This infuriated the headstrong Eros who decided to take his revenge on the audacious Apollo. Eros climbed on a rock of Mt Parnassus and unleashed two arrows: one sharp and gold-tipped and another blunt and lead-tipped. The sharp, gold-tipped arrow pierced the heart of Apollo inflaming his love for Daphne, a beautiful nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, while the blunt, lead-tipped arrow struck the nymph creating an intense aversion for love in the her heart.

She was constantly rejecting the love of the glorious Apollo, despite his repeated pleadings and cajoleries. She similarly detested all the other men who were trying to get her. It is said that Leucippus, a handsome man, had been so desperate to win Daphne that he disguised himself into a girl and mixed her company. However, the nymphs understood his trickery and killed him.

In the meanwhile, Apollo was persistently pursuing Daphne. The poor girl, in order to escape from him and to protect his virginity, pleaded for help from her father, Peneus (or from Mother Earth, according to another version), who drew back to Daphne's prayers and transformed the nymph into a nice short plant with excellent smell.

This plant was the laurel, which is called "daphne" is Greek, after the nymph's name. Apollo was heart-broken at the loss of Daphne and to remember her for ever, he made the laurel the symbol of tribute to poets. The laurel became therefore the symbol of the god. Note that Pythia, the priestess in the oracle of Delphi, was chewing leaves of laurel to communicate with Apollo and give her prophesies to people.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Master of the Die  (1512–1570) - River gods consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne. From 'The Story of Apollo and Daphne', 1530–60.

[yourbuerokrat2]

@cchipollo The fact, that before Q showed up Picard and Beverly were alone in the dark in some warehouse probably having another one of their 'moments' that Q just had to interrupt. And that Q really had to change his entire body type just for that representation. Also Q trying to ignore that Beverly even exists in all of the panels I have seen from that comic just screams petty jealousy.

Also if you did not know the mythological meaning of the laurel wreath (because I think you would like it): Basically Apollo dared to tell Eros that he had a bad aim and you do not insult Eros. So Eros shot two arrows, one of love through Apollos heart and one at the nymph Daphne about the 'aversion of love'. A chase where Apollo tried to reassure her that 'love' for the reason for her pursuit (I beg you, nymph, daughter of Peneus, remain! I pursue not as an enemy;), where he told her to at least flee a bit more carefully (I pray that you run more gently and restrain your escape, I myself will pursue more gently.) and that the reason she is running away is that she seems not to understand that he is Apollo, a god, and not some common hunter or shepherd (You don’t know, o thoughtless one, you don’t know whom you flee, and therefore you flee). This however only makes her continue to flee and she begs her father to help her and as a way to rescue her from Apollos love she is turned into a tree and since Apollo still loves her he kisses her and says:

The god said to her, since you can't be my bride, at least you will certainly be my tree! My hair(s) will always have you, my lyres [will have you], my quivers [will have you], o Laurel;

(the texts from Apollos words are taken from Ovids Metamorphoses: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Metamorphoses/Daphne_and_Apollo)

He goes on further what he intends for laurel to mean.

So, I like to think that Picard is less focused on Qs peacock-like display and more on the laurel branch, thinking how fitting it is. Just that nobody is going to turn him into a tree in order to get Q to leave him alone.

Also, you really gave Q the body of a young greek god, I gotta give you that.

felt really REALLY normal when i saw this comic panel ha ha ha !!!!

[spoopierpumpkin]

We never actually see Apollo's reaction to Daphne's transformation, but there's a passage about Daphne in Hyginus' Fabulae that would have really hammered home how awful Apollo can be when his pride is damaged.

I'm going to put it under a cut in case anybody would rather avoid it as it involves the mutilation of Daphne's body.

"When Apollo was pursuing the virgin Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, she begged for protection from Earth, who received her, and changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo broke a branch from it and placed it on his head."

(The myths of Hyginus, 1960, translated by Mary Grant)

Not only does Apollo hunt down Daphne against her will, he snaps off parts of her transformed body to wear as a trophy after.

I know Rachel would never do it but there's potential for a whole new level of horror there.

[greekmythssexywoman]

Medusa: in one version of the myth: cursed by Athena to become a gorgon and turn anyone she looked at into stone for sleeping with poseidon in her temple. She ends up killed by Perseus

Daphne: Dryad daughter of Peneus (river god) when Apollo fell in love with her she asked her father to helped her and transformed into a laurel tree

[little-witchys-garden]

The story of Daphne and Apollo

the Greek god of music, poetry, art, the sun, and a great warrior, mocked the god of love, Eros, for his use of bow and arrow, as Apollo is also patron of archery.

“What are you doing with powerful weapons, boy?” He said.

"That equipment of yours is fitting of our shoulders, which are able to give certain wounds to wild animals, and to enemies, I who recently killed the swollen Python, who was pressing down so many acres with his disease-bearing belly, with countless arrows! You will be content to provoke some loves by your fire, not to lay claim to my honors.”

Eros took that insult very personally then prepared two arrows: one of gold and one of lead. He shot Apollo with the gold arrow, instilling in the god a passionate love for the poor and non-consenting river nymph Daphne.

He shot Daphne with the lead arrow, instilling in her a hatred for Apollo. Having taken after Apollo’s sister, Artemis, Daphne had spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the forest.

Due to her identity as an “aemula Phoebes” (female rival or emulator of Artemis),

She had not the need for any man in anyway.

she had dedicated herself to perpetual virginity. Her father, the river god Peneus, demanded that she get married and give him grandchildren. She, however, begged and fought with her father to let her remain unmarried; he eventually complied seeing as such a life would never truly bring his daughter happiness.

Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued to reject him. They were evenly matched in the race until Eros intervened, helping Apollo catch up to Daphne. Seeing that Apollo was bound to reach her, she called upon her father,

"Help me, father! Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, hide me from the man which has brought me into this danger! Let me be free of men from this moment forward!"

And with that, Peneus answered her plea.

She turned into a laurel tree.

In spite of Daphne's terror and fervent insistence that he leaves her alone, Apollo vowed to honor her forever: “Always my hair will have you, my lyres will have you, my quivers will have you, laurel tree. You will be present for the Latin leaders when a happy voice will sing a triumph and the Capitoline Hill will see long processions.”

Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render Daphne evergreen

"You also, wear always the perpetual honors of your foliage!"

For this reason, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree do not decay.

{ I always felt so very sad for Daphne but at least now no man may harm her again }

[killergirlfuria]

DO NOT REPOST.

Say hello to the newest of my endeavors, an attempt to transfer Winx characters to Genshin; or, old obsession meet new obsession, have fun boiling together in my head. (If I get around to it, Stella's coming next.) First in the series is, of course, Bloom. In Winx Impact, her full name is Bloom Hendrickson, and her birth name is Cyrene Vassago (my reasoning being that both Cyrene and Daphne were naiads and daughters of Peneus, so I figured why not; her birth parents, with no idea of her birth name, named her Bloom, and that's the only name that matters to her). She's a 5✩ Pyro Sword character. And here's a little blurb about her: Bloom Hendrickson is adopted daughter to Mike and Vanessa Hendrickson, and older adopted sister to Flora and Chloris Hendrickson, born as Cyrene Vassago, younger sister to Daphne Vassago and daughter to Oritel and Marion Vassago. She’s currently 20, and a Guard Captain to the Knights of Favonius. She’s good friends with Albedo and Kaeya, as well as often times the designated babysitter for Klee. She also is constantly at odds with Jean, because she’s of the opinion that Jean, as the acting grandmaster, should be focusing on running the knights, instead of behaving like a cat-saving, errand-running apprentice. In the Winx Impact AU, Bloom is the one who ended up hunting down and killing Ursa the Drake about a year after it caused the death of Crepus, which saw her instant rise in popularity among the people, which made Varka to push for her promotion. Bloom used her newfound influence to reveal the truth behind Crepus’ death; because she valued the integrity of the knights more than their scandal-free reputation. The move made her widely unpopular with the higher-ups, but also made Diluc appreciate her a whole lot and the two are now somewhat friends. As the person in charge of internal security, and one infamously disliking the Fatui, she always strives to make their lives unnecessarily harder than they should be in the entirety of Mondstadt. Bloom is aware that she’s adopted, her parents told her as much, and even if they didn’t, she has always known something was different; she has been having dreams about a woman in a pillar of fire in an ice-covered throne room. It was that very woman, with whom Bloom feels an inexplicable connection, who directed her to find and kill Ursa the Drake, which she inexplicably managed despite initially thinking it a fool’s errand. Bloom is fairly sure there’s more to her than just being a child her parents found and adopted. (She knows something is going on, just not how deep it goes, or that a forgotten nation at the bottom of the Dark Sea is missing a princess, and a god-dragon is slowly coming back after its sacrifice to keep its people safe from Celestia’s greed. And Bloom, of course, is in the middle of it all.) Bloom as a Knight is strong, driven, and dedicated, almost scarily so. At the beginning of the events of Genshin Impact, she's 20 years old. Credits: Winx Club belongs to Iginio Straffi and all the apropriate companies. Genshin Impact (and the 3D model of Royal Longsword) belongs to MiHoYo. The design of Bloom-as-GI-Character belongs to me. Pose by anastasia-berry (https://www.deviantart.com/anastasia-berry/art/Poses-Reference-79-female-811243685 the second pose, swapped leg position) Antiche cover book Seamless textures by jojo-ojoj (https://www.deviantart.com/jojo-ojoj/art/Antiche-cover-book-Seamless-textures-520748615) Dragon referenced from a bad-quality screenshot from the Winx Show

[thetudorslovers]

"But Apollo, the eternally beautiful youth, the perfection of all that is graceful and refined, rarely seems to have been happy in his love; either his advances met with a repulse, or his union with the object of his affection was attended with fatal consequences. His first love was Daphne (daughter of Peneus, the river-god), who was so averse to marriage that she entreated her father to allow her to lead a life of celibacy, and devote herself to the chase, which she loved to the exclusion of all other pursuits. But one day, soon after his victory over the Python, Apollo happened to see Eros bending his bow, and proud of his own superior strength and skill, he laughed at the efforts of the little archer, saying that such a weapon was more suited to the one who had just killed the terrible serpent. Eros angrily replied that his arrow should pierce the heart of the mocker himself, and flying off to the summit of Mount Parnassus, he drew from his quiver two darts of different workmanship - one of gold, which had the effect of inspiring love; the other of lead, which created aversion. Taking aim at Apollo, he pierced his breast with the golden shaft, whilst the leaden one he discharged into the bosom of the beautiful Daphne. The son of Leto instantly felt the most ardent affection for the nymph, who, on her part, evinced the greatest dislike towards her divine lover, and, at his approach, fled from him like a hunted deer. He called upon her in the most endearing accents to stay, but she still sped on, until at length, becoming faint with fatigue, and fearing that she was about to succumb, she called upon the gods to come to her aid. Hardly had she uttered her prayer before a heavy torpor seized her limbs, and just as Apollo threw out his arms to embrace her, she became transformed into a laurel-bush. He sorrowfully crowned his head with its leaves, and declared, that in memory of his love, it should henceforth remain evergreen, and be held sacred to him.-"THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME" by E. M. Berens,2010

[ukdamo]

Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits shows Apollo in pursuit of Daphne. The marble sculpture was created by Bernini in the early 17th CE, and can be seen in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. Apollo runs hell for leather, his skimpy drape billowing out behind him in the slipstream. In front, just out of reach, Daphne begins her transformation - you can see her raised hand is sprouting twigs and leaves.

Apollo lusted after Daphne, who spurned him. Before he could catch and rape her, her father, Peneus, (at his fiercely independent daughter’s request) turned her into a laurel tree. If her mother had been granted a say, it may have been Apollo’s penis that was transformed into a laurel twig. However, this is Greek myth - and such outcomes don’t feature. 

In mitigation of his offence, Apollo made the laurel the sacred unto himself: the wood was used for his lyre, and the circlets of victors in competitions, were of laurel. 

Which is about as much as could be hoped from the God. 

[sweet-soul-fragnance]

Daphne :

Lie VS truth

Basic info :

1. Who is daphne ?? more or less what you are told about her in the media ??

-> She is said to be the daughter of the god Peneus  and the nymph creusa who due to a curse made by the Cupid, son of venus on the god Apollo  (Phoebus), she became the unwilling object of the infatuation of Apollo, who chased her against her wishes. Daphne pleaded to her river god father for help, who transformed her into a laurel tree, thus foiling Apollo. Thenceforth Apollo developed a special reverence for laurel . ( in case anyone is like but cupid and venus are roman aren't they so how the heck it made a Greek myth this is because this is written by ovid (a roman himself) and is retold . The earliest version (greek) is not really given spotlight .

long story short : daphne is a mortal & she is pursued by the boy Leucippus who disguises himself in a girl's outfit in order to join her band of huntresses. He is also successful in gaining her innocent affection but Apollo being the god of Truth put it in the mind of the girl and her mates to bathe in river ladon but the boy couldn't undress himself so he was caught red handed and thus the girls killed him and Apollo begins his pursuit but daphne prays to zeus and thus was transformed into laurel . (boy , leucippus is creepy )

nevermind , now time to talk about real stuff

Daphne is etymologically related to Latin  laurus i.e. "laurel tree" . The myth of daphne is aetiological in nature meaning it is either concerned with how laurel came to be ?? Or why laurel is sacred to apollo (i guess it is both) but since mythology do contain a considerable amount of fiction it is safe to say based on our developed science and reasoning/logical attempts that human do not turn into plants thus this myth is allegorical . This myth is based on myth-ritual theory a/q to which myth originated from ritual and ritual came before myth and is dependent on ritual for it's existence and daphnephoria ( a ritual performed in the honour of apollo) has given rise to the myth of daphne .

Key points :

Daphne is not a nymph/mortal . It literally translates to laurel . Click on the link below to know more about the ritual and how it has no relation to daphne being transformed into a plant .