6/24/2023 0 Comments Metamorphoses by ovid![]() ![]() Before she has finished uttering her prayer, her body starts to transform into a laurel tree, leaving Apollo embracing her trunk and kissing the wood. Recognising her imminent fate, Daphne calls on her father, a river god, to save her. ![]() As he runs he breathlessly tries to persuade her to stop and give in to his desires, but she keeps running just out of his reach.Įventually the pair tire. ![]() His heart on fire for her, and his mind wandering dangerously towards raw lust, Apollo starts to chase Daphne through the countryside. Even before she was struck by Cupid’s lead arrow, she had resolved to remain a virgin, rejecting every suitor, and events only strengthen her resolution. The god Apollo is completely smitten with Daphne, a water-nymph, but Daphne wants nothing to do with him. The full list of articles and an index of all the characters involved is provided here.ĭaphne, and how the laurel became the crown (Book 1) To mark this halfway point, I have selected eleven of the very best stories and the finest paintings. Over the last eight months, I have stepped through each of the stories in the first seven and a half books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, summarising their verbal narrative and showing some of the best paintings which tell those stories. ![]()
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