Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque

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 Daphnefocuses 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.Barnard, Mary is the author of 'Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque', published 1987 under ISBN 9780822307013 and ISBN 0822307014.