According to Greek mythApollo chased the nymphDaphne (Greek: Δάφνη, meaning "laurel"), daughter of Ladon, who had scorned him. His infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who was jealous because Apollo had made fun of his archery skills. Eros also claimed to be irritated by Apollo's singing. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her and he changed her into a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo. See Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book I: 452-567.
Things named after Daphne
Daphne is also the title of an opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth of the nymph Daphne.
Dafne is the name of an opera by Jacopo Peri (1597), no longer extant, and is considered to be the first opera ever composed.
Dafni, sometimes called Daphne, is also a suburb of Athens, Greece. It has an Athens Metro station (red line) and Vouliagmenis Avenue. It is the smallest municipality in Athens covering about 1 kmē. The city hall is in the south, 200 m near the municipal boundary. The municipality is divides in two, one covers 85% to 90% of the total area, and the southeast covers 15% or 10% (smaller than the Vatican) about 0.5 kmē. It sits on a hill and almost the entire land is covered with residential area; there are no industrial factories in that part of suburban Athens. A hill is located to the north near the Athens municipal boudnary. The main street is Boumpoulinas Avenue.
Elevation: 70 m (lowest), 80 m (centre), 100 m (highest)
Location:
Longitude: 23.727/23°43'43
Latitude: 37.951/37°57'6
YPES code: 0114
Address of Adiministration: 16 Ellis and Kanari St. Dafni 172 35
Dafni is a quarter of Chaidari in the western part of Athens
Dafni, sometimes called Daphne, is a village lying in a hilly, forested region on a road between Amalias and Simopoulo in north-central Ilia, Greece. It is NE of Amalias and SW of the Peneus Dam. Before the 20th century, the village was called Damiza.
Dafni, a town in the southermost part of Achaea, Greece.
Dafni, sometimes called Daphne, is a village in the Pella prefecture of Greece. Its latitude is 40.769722° N and 22.226944° E. Its elevation is around 5 m.
Dafni is a village in the southeastern part of the prefecture of Viotia
Daphnis then wants to immediately go to Chloe and show her his newfound knowledge, but Lycaenion warns him about the pain and blood that accompany the loss of virginity, and tells Daphnis to remember that she was his first.
Daphnis remains despondent, but one night the Nymphs appear to him in a dream and show him where a dead dolphin has washed up near a purse containing three thousand drachmas, and inform him that he will be even richer later.
Daphnis, dressed in a goatskin and looking like Apollo when he worked for Laomedon, is presented to the master, and gives the city folk an exhibition of how he can control his goats with music.
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