Daphnis

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Daphnis can also be a genus of hawk moth, and a moon of Saturn


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Sculpture of Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes; ca. 100 B.C. Found in Pompeii
In Greek mythology, Daphnis (from Gk. daphne, "laurel" or "bay-tree") was a son of Hermes and a Sicilian nymph. A shepherd and flutist, he was the inventor of pastoral poetry. A naiad (possibly Echenais or Nomia) fell in love with him, but he was not faithful to her. In revenge, she either blinded him or turned him to stone. Pan also fell in love with him and taught him to play the pan pipes.

Daphnis was also the name of a member of the group of Prophetic sisters, known as the Thriae.

Longus's legend of Daphnis and Chloe describes two children who grow up together and gradually develop mutual love, eventually marrying after many adventures.

Aelian reports the existence of myths in which Daphnis is the eromenos of Hermes. (Varia Historia, 10.18)

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Sphingidae
Latreille, 1802

Diversity
About 200 genera,
roughly 1,200 species

Type species
Sphinx ligustri
Linnaeus, 1758

Subfamilies

Macroglossinae
Smerinthinae
Sphinginae

Sphingidae
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Daphnis (daf'-nəs, IPA: /ˈdæfnɨs/, Greek Δαφνίς) is an inner satellite of Saturn.
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Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Hermes (Greek, Ἑρμῆς, IPA: /ˈhɝmiːz/), in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and
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nymph is any member of a large class of female entities in human form, that is either bound to a particular location, or landform, or is part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally Artemis.
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    In Greek mythology, the Naiads (from the Greek νάειν, "to flow," and νἃμα, "running water") were a type of nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, and brooks, as river gods embodied rivers, and some very
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    In Greek mythology, Nomia was a naiad. The Nomian Mountains were named for her. She may have been the nymph who loved Daphnis.
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      Pan (Greek Πάν, genitive Πανός) is the Greek god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music: paein means to pasture.
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      pan flute (also known as panpipes) is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe, consisting usually of ten or more pipes of gradually increasing length (and, at times, girth).
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      Thriae or Thriai were nymphs, three virginal sisters, one of a number of such triads — "maiden trinities" Jane Ellen Harrison called them — in Greek mythology[1]
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      Longus (Greek: Λόγγος) was a Greek novelist and romancer, and author of Daphnis and Chloe. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe
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      Daphnis and Chloe is the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romancer Longus.[1]

      Setting and style

      It is set on the isle of Lesbos during the 2nd century AD, which is also assumed to be the author's home.
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      The name Aelian or Aelianus may refer to one of three people:
      • Aelianus Tacticus, a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, who lived in Rome
      • Casperius Aelianus, a Praetorian Prefect, executed by Trajan
      • Claudius Aelianus

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      eromenos (Greek ἐρώμενος, pl. "eromenoi") was an adolescent boy who was in a love relationship with an adult man, known as the erastes (ἐραστής).
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      Hermes (Greek, Ἑρμῆς, IPA: /ˈhɝmiːz/), in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and
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