Oct 2, 2023 · Daphnis invented pastoral poetry and spent the rest of his life singing about his unhappiness. In some traditions, he was killed after incurring the wrath of Aphrodite. Daphnis’ story probably originated in Sicily as a variant to the Near Eastern myth of Tammuz or Adonis. He was a favorite among ancient writers of bucolic and pastoral poetry.

Mar 8, 2023 · Daphne was a virginal nymph, the daughter of a Greek river god. In her most famous myth, she was desired by the Olympian god Apollo and was only able to escape his advances by transforming into a laurel tree.

Jan 6, 2023 · Nymphs continued to feature in later Greek literature—for instance, in the satirical writings of Lucian (ca. 120–after 180 CE), the novel Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (late second/early third century CE), and the vast Dionysiaca of Nonnus (fifth century CE).

Mar 8, 2023 · More substantial references to Echo come from later literature. There is a detailed account of the myth of Echo and Pan in Book 3 of the novel Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (late second/early third century CE). Further references to the romance of Echo and Pan can be found in the works of Nonnus (fifth century CE).

May 20, 2023 · Pan was the infamous god of shepherds and goatherds who hailed from Arcadia. He was part-human and part-goat, and his days in the woods and countryside were spent singing, dancing, hunting, chasing nymphs, and playing his reed pipes.

Aug 31, 2023 · A. T. Murray. For other references to caves of nymphs, see Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1.4; Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 4.469–70; Porphyry, On the Cave of the Nymphs. ↩; Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History 5.3.4–5; scholia on Pindar’s Olympian Odes 12.27. ↩; Theocritus, Idylls 5.17; Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.50. ↩

The fate of Daphnis is a fate too known, Whom an enamour’d nymph transform’d to stone, Because she fear’d another nymph might see The lovely youth, and love as much as she: So strange the madness is of jealousie! Nor shall I tell, what changes Scython made, And how he walk’d a man, or tripp’d a maid.