The transformation of the myth of Apollo and Daphne in literary treatments from Ovid through the Spanish Golden Age are studied in theme and variation, showing how the protean figures of the myth meant different things to different ages, each age fashioning the lovers in its own image. The Myth of Apollo and Daphne focuses on the themes of love, agon, and the grotesque and their transformations as the writers, through a kind of artificial mythopoeia, invent variants for the tale, altering the ancient model to create their new, distinctive visions.
- ISBN10 0822307014
- ISBN13 9780822307013
- Publish Date 3 March 1987
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 223
- Language English