However, it was becoming clear that Daphne would be caught sooner or later. At times Apollo could almost grab her but she escaped him at the last second. He was running and running while the nymph could see that she was getting closer and closer to getting caught. With these words Ovid ( Metamorphoses 525-550) describes Apollo and Daphne’s chase as the story was nearing its tragic conclusion.Īpollo focused on catching Daphne. “Like a hound of Gaul starting a hare in an empty field, that heads for its prey, she for safety” 1755-1760, National Gallery of Art, Washington The Tragic Conclusion Apollo pursuing Daphne, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. But love cannot be healed by any herb, nor can the arts that cure others cure their lord!”
#Daphne after shoots free
My aim is certain, but an arrow truer than mine has wounded my free heart! The whole world calls me the bringer of aid medicine is my invention my power is in herbs. Through me, strings sound in harmony, to the song. Through me what was, what is, and what will be, are revealed. Delphi’s lands are mine, Claros and Tenedos, and Patara acknowledges me, king. “Rash girl, you do not know, you cannot realize, who you run from, and so you run. Besides, he was the god of beauty, prophecy, medicine, and music, no woman should be able to resist him: In a hopeless attempt to make her stop he started explaining to her who he was.
He was afraid that Daphne might fall and get hurt. The chase went on as Apollo was becoming more and more paranoid. Nymph, Wait! This is the way a sheep runs from the wolf, a deer from the mountain lion, but it is love that is driving me to follow you! Pity me!” He tried to explain that he posed no threat to her and that his intentions were good: “Wait nymph, daughter of Peneus, I beg you!”, screamed Apollo but Daphne did not even look back. Before Apollo could even get a proper response, Daphne had fled.Īpollo Chases Daphne Apollo and Daphne, Peter Paul Rubens, Musée Bonnat, via RKD But Daphne could not even stand his presence. He approached the nymph whom he now saw more beautiful and virtuous than she actually was. Apollo was madly in love with a woman who hated him with every ounce of her being.Īpollo’s love for Daphne was so strong that the god of prophecy was unable to foretell his future but still, his emotions were uncontrollable. However, the arrow that hit Daphne, was an arrow that filled the nymph’s heart with disgust for the god who appeared in front of her.Ĭupid’s revenge was cruel. The moment he got hit by the arrow, Apollo spotted Daphne hunting in the wild and unable to contain his passion went after her. The one that hit Apollo, was an arrow of love and intense passion. “Dearest father, let me be a virgin forever! Diana’s father granted it to her”, Daphne always replied.Īpollo’s Love Meets Daphne’s Disgust: A Tragic Dead-End Apollo and Daphne, Francesco Albani, 1615-1620, Louvre, ParisĬoming back to Cupid’s arrows, they both had special abilities. “It is my due, child of my heart, to be given grandchildren”, said Peneus. Ovid writes that her father, the river god Peneus, disagreed with her life and asked her to settle down and give him grandchildren: However, she was devoted to hunting and following the laws of the goddess Artemis, who demanded chastity and virginity. Daphne was very beautiful and many men came to ask her hand. With a second arrow, a “blunt one with lead beneath its shaft”, Cupid shot Daphne, a nymph who also happened to be a virgin huntress of the goddess Artemis. The true injury was not corporeal, it was sentimental, but Apollo would learn that soon. He then shot him on the chest with a “golden arrow with a sharp glistening point”.
The god of love stroke his wings and flew right next to the god of music. The next thing Cupid did was something Apollo did not see coming. Cupid’s Reaction To Apollo’s Remarks Apollo and the Python, Cornelis de Vos, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-1638, Museo del Prado, MadridĬupid did not take the offense lightheartedly: “You may hit every other thing Phoebus, but my bow will strike you: to the degree that all living creatures are less than gods, by that degree is your glory less than mine.”
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