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Apollonius in Daphne (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity



02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



Keywords
cypresses
Daphne
temples
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.16:
Visiting Antioch the Great when his silence was over, he went to the sanctuary of Apollo at Daphne. The Assyrians connect a well known Arcadian myth with this place, saying that Daphne the daughter of Ladon was transformed there, and they have a flowing river Ladon, and honour a laurel tree as the transfiguration of the girl. Cypresses of enormous height surround the sanctuary, and the place produces plentiful, gentle springs, in which Apollo is said to dip. The soil has yielded a slender cypress tree, named after an Assyrian youth called Cypress, they say, and the tree’s beauty corroborates the transformation.


Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.16

Bibliography

Jones 2005, 66-69Jones, Ch. P. Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 2005.

Amar Annus


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