Phyllis

Phyllis (Greek Φυλλίς phullís, leaf, leaves, petal ') is a figure in Greek mythology.

The daughter of the Thracian king Sithon pretended to be grief over the long absence of her lover Demophon death and was transformed into a leafless almond tree, which, by Demophon then hugged leafed.

This story is the contents of the second letter of Ovid's Heroides.

In pastoral poems Phyllis was often used as a name for lovelorn shepherdess.

Swell

• Ruth Elizabeth Harder, Phyllis, in: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider ( ed.), Brill's New Pauly online.
• Ovid, Heroides - Letters of heroines, Latin / German, Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart, 2000.