Go to content Go to navigation Go to search Change language. Buy your ticket. Search ok. Next work Bathsheba at Her Bath. Conditions for Use of Images. Go to the artwork description. Paintings Italian painting. Author s : Corinne Dollfuss. Tiepolo treats this dramatic episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses I, by showing the end of Apollo's chase and the beginning of Daphne's transformation: she half-turns towards Apollo, but already the laurel shoots sprouting from her fingertips make it clear how her flight must end.

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Frasier : No! Crane that I want to speak with her, and don't take no for an answer! Niles : Well then, Nadia, you tell her that Dr. Crane says Niles : Please please please please please please! Niles : It wasn't as bad as all that. It's not like you saw her naked or something. Niles : Dad, I have never seen Maris this angry. I swear, her eye was twitching like a frog in a science experiment. Martin : Well, when your mother'd get mad at me, I'd just grab her, bend her backwards, and give her a kiss that made her glad she was a woman!
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She is said by ancient sources variously to have been a daughter of the river god Peneus and the nymph Creusa in Thessaly Hyginus Fabulae or of Ladon the river Ladon in Arcadia or Pineios , and to Ge or Gaia Pausanias and others. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative appears in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the god 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. Just before being kissed by him, 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. At the Pythian Games which were held every four years in Delphi in honour of Apollo, a wreath of laurel gathered from the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly was given as a prize. Hence it later became customary to award prizes in the form of laurel wreaths to victorious generals, athletes, poets and musicians, worn as a chaplet on the head. The Poet Laureate is a well-known modern example of such a prize-winner, dating from the early Renaissance in Italy. According to Pausanias the reason for this was "simply and solely because the prevailing tradition has it that Apollo fell in love with the daughter of Ladon Daphne ". The earliest source of the myth of Daphne and Apollo is Phylarchus, quoted by Parthenius.