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According to Greek myth Apollo
chased the nymph Daphne (Greek:
Δάφνη
, meaning "laurel"), daughter of Ladon, who had scorned him. His infatuation was
caused by an arrow from Eros, who was jealous because Apollo had made fun
of his archery skills. Eros also claimed to be irritated by Apollo's singing. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her and he changed her into a laurel
tree, which became sacred to Apollo.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book I:
452-567.
Daphne is also a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented
flowers and poisonous berries.
Dafni/Daphne is also a suburb of Athens, Greece. It has an Attiko Metro station
(red line) and Vouliagmenis Avenue. It is the smallest municipality in Athens covering
about 1 kmē. The city hall is in the south, 200 m near the municipal boundary. The municipality is divides in two, one covers 85%
to 90% of the total area, and the southeast covers 15% or 10% (smaller than the Vatican) about 0.5 kmē. It sits on a hill and almost the entire land is covered with residential area, there
are no industrial factories in that part of suburban Athens.
Dafni/sometimes Daphne is a village lying in a hilly forested region lying on a road between
Amalias and Simopoulo in north-central
Elia, distance is NE of Amalias and SW of the Peneus Dam. Before the 20th century. the village was called Damiza.
Dafni/Daphne is a village in the Pella prefecture.
Its latitude is 40.769722° N and 22.226944° E. Its elevation is around 5 m.
Daphne is also a first name, and a town in Alabama, US, see Daphne, Alabama
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