Daphnis

Daphnis (Greek Δάφνις, laurel child) was in Greek mythology a shepherd in Sicily, son of Hermes and a nymph. His mother is said to have given birth to him in a laurel grove ( δάφνη ) or exposed there, after which it was named. The unfaithful to the nymph Nomia, which he had committed themselves to loyalty has its blindness result. He had boasted lightly to defeat Eros. But the wounded Aphrodite awakened in him the love of the princess Xenea who also answered this. Daphnis ' victory over the Eros would have been not to give him his consuming passion to Xenea and Nais to remain faithful. He could indeed be a consolation with his Sanges and flute art on the glare yet, but it soon led to his death when he fell down from a cliff and was transformed himself into a rock. Hermes is said to have translated him, every year the people brought him dar. In another version of atonement ( Ovid, Metamorphoses 4, 276 ff ), he is turned into a stone. In the best-known version, that of Theocritus (1, 64-142 ), he dies of lovesickness. In Virgil's Eclogues various pastoral figures bear the name of Daphnis. Furthermore, Pan fell in love with Daphnis and taught him to play the pan flute.