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- Daphnis – Mythopedia
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
- Nymphs – Mythopedia
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)
- Daphne - Mythopedia
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
- Echo - Mythopedia
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)
- Naiads - Mythopedia
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 ↩
- Pan – Mythopedia
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
- Oreads - Mythopedia
There was another, very different version of the myth in which Echo was the lover (or would-be lover) of the rustic god Pan; see Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 3 23; Homeric Hymn 19 21; Moschus, frag 6 Gow; Orphic Hymn 11 10; Dio Chrysostom, Oration 6 20; Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 6 (see epitome in Photius, Library 190); Apuleius, Golden Ass
- Metamorphoses: Book 4 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
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
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