Talk:Daphne

Format

Is it just me, or does this page look somewhat ugly (formatting wise)? ugen64 02:36, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)

You are right. It's awful. Optim 03:02, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Is that any better? The pic is too big for the amount of text, though. RickK 03:08, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yes it's better, good work! I changed the code to go to the right. Can someone make it a thumbnail with the new wikimage markup? Optim 03:17, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think Chloe (which does not figure as yet in the wikipedia) should be mentioned here

I thought Daphne was a dryad as opposed to a nymph.

Artemis

I read that Daphne prayed to Artemis, and it was she who turned her into a laurel.Boipussi 20:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I just want to know why somebody would care so much about the formatting of a page??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.179.136.43 (talk) 03:06, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Chewing too much laurel, and the scenery too...

I moved the following unsourced (unsourceable?) text here Wetman (talk) 11:32, 29 June 2009 (UTC):

"Daphnes origins came from Tempe, in Greece. Her original name was Daphoene, which means 'the bloody one'. An ancient form of Gaia. A mare-headed moon goddess, who's Maenad priestess's chewed on the laurel, for phrophecy.Her animals were the bee and the dove. She also had close assosiation with Demeter at Phigalia and Daphoenissa at Delphi. Her rape by Apollo was his religon over taking her earlier religous ground and rites. Patriarchy power over the earlier peaceful goddess religon."

Why is this page so pedantic?

This page reads like an academic paper, not a wiki article. The basic plot points of the myth are buried in didactic analysis and pointless commentary:

"Why should she wish to escape? Because she is Artemis Daphnaia, the god's sister," observed the Freudian anthropologist Géza Róheim - who cares???

I agree. "Why should she wish to escape?" Because she doesn't want to be raped. If you ignore all the mythological trappings, this is basically a story of attempted rape. --50.180.19.238 (talk) 11:06, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Much of this article is badly-written. What is “part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in the Metamorphoses” supposed to mean? --Dour (talk) 14:37, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

This page does a better job of covering the myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.223.80 (talk) 05:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

proposal for a more recent painting

I'd like to include

File:Daphne and Apollo.jpg

David Goodrich's "Daphne and Apollo"

as an additional illustration of the myth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.87.129.242 (talk) 22:11, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Just for the record, I previously removed an external link to this painting for this reason, which still applies to its use now that it is uploaded at Commons; the views of others' can be found here (under "A painting at Daphne"). Fun painting, though: you have to love the blue-collar, slightly Matthew Modinesque Apollo. — cardiff | chestnut — 23:30, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Category

Should "Mythological rape victims" category be removed? A "mythological sexual assault victims" category would be more accurate if it existed. I think the current one is a bit misleading, plus many other SA victims from myth don't have it. Deiadameian (talk) 10:55, 29 October 2021 (UTC)