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Apollo claims that he is pursuing Daphne out of love, not as a predator. However, because Daphne does not desire Apollo’s advances, his passion is no better than predation. Apollo also calls love an inescapable disease, suggesting that it is a force that causes a person to act against their will.
Apollo speaks disparagingly to Cupid, who shoots two arrows in retaliation. The first arrow causes Apollo to fall in love, and the second arrow makes the object of his love, Daphne, flee. Apollo pursues Daphne, but she rejects him. Apollo pleads and persists, and Daphne cries out to her father for help.
Ovid presents the Daphne story at first as an aetiology for the use of the laurel as a prize (frondis honorem, 449) for the young contestants in track and field events (iuvenum quicumque manu pedibus-ve rotave / vicerat, 448-449) at the Pythian games; Apollo runs for the laurel exactly as the contestants at the sacred games do
Meret Oppenheim's Daphne and Apollo (1943, Lukas Moeschelin collection, Basel) has both Daphne and Apollo undergoing a metamorphosis, which reflects the artist's interest in androgyny. [1] Milet Andrejevic, a Yugoslavian immigrant to the U.S., set his Apollo and Daphne (1969, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence) in New York's ...
Apollo and Daphne (c. 1470–1480) by Antonio del Pollaiuolo depicts one tale of transformation in the Metamorphoses—Apollo lusts after Daphne, but she is changed into a bay laurel and escapes him. The different genres and divisions in the narrative allow the Metamorphoses to display a wide range of themes.
The one that kindles is golden with a sharp glistening point, the one that dispels is blunt with lead beneath its shaft. With the second he transfixed Peneus’s daughter, but with the first he wounded Apollo. piercing him to the marrow of his bones. Bk I: 473-503 Phoebus pursues Daphne.
The sculpture depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne (Phoebus and Daphne), as written in Ovid 's Metamorphoses, wherein the nymph Daphne escapes Apollo's advances by transforming into a laurel tree.
