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Daphne (/ ˈ d æ f n i /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel ' ), [ 1 ] a figure in Greek mythology , is a naiad , a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
Trees are significant in many of the world's mythologies, and have been given deep and sacred meanings throughout the ages. Human beings, observing the growth and death of trees , and the annual death and revival of their foliage, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] have often seen them as powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth.
Daphne Elizabeth Brooker (née Beacon, 8 June 1927 – 2 February 2012) was a British model, costume designer, and a professor and head of fashion at Kingston University for three decades, where she had "a leading role in the teaching of fashion".
After much pursuing, Daphne began to tire; when Apollo was about to catch her, she prayed to the gods to save her, and she was turned (either by her father, Gaia or Zeus) into a laurel tree, which thereupon became the sacred tree of Apollo. Diopatra's sisters: Black poplar trees Poseidon
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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 ...
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