Daphne
Daphne (; ; el, Δάφνη, , ), a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
There are several versions of the myth in whi ...
was a naiad (water nymph) in Greek mythology.
Daphne may also refer to:
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''Daphne'' (opera), a 1938 opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth and legend of the beautiful nymph Daphne
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''Daphne'' (plant), a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries
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41 Daphne
Daphne (minor planet designation: 41 Daphne) is a large asteroid from the asteroid belt. It is a dark-surfaced body 174 km in diameter is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous chondrites. The spectra of the asteroid displays evidence ...
, an asteroid
Places
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Daphne Palace, of Constantinople
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Daphni Monastery
Daphni or Dafni (Modern Greek: Δαφνί; Katharevousa: Δαφνίον, ''Daphnion'') is an eleventh-century Byzantine monastery northwest of central Athens in the suburb of Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue ( GR-8A). It is situated near the f ...
, near Athens
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Daphne Island, a river island in Alberta, Canada
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Daphne Major
Daphne Major is a volcanic island just north of Santa Cruz Island and just west of the Baltra Airport in the Archipelago of Colón, commonly known as the Galápagos Islands. It consists of a tuff crater, devoid of trees, whose rim rises above the ...
, in the Galápagos Islands
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Daphne, Alabama, a city in the United States
*A former suburb of the ancient city of Antioch, today
Harbiye, Antakya
Harbiye (Ancient Greek: ''Dàphne'', Δάφνη; in Arabic دفنه or ''Harbiyat'', حربيات) is a town in Hatay Province, Turkey
Geography
Midtown Harbiye is about south of Antakya, the administrative center of Hatay Province at . It ...
, Turkey
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Constantiana Daphne
Daphne was a Roman fortification inaugurated, most probably in 327, on the left bank of the Danube, across Transmarisca, in the delta of the Arges river. In 367, emperor Valens crossed the Danube at Daphne using a pontoon bridge. Chronicler Georg ...
, Byzantine fortification on Danube
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Daphne (Mount Athos)
Dafni ( el, Δάφνη) is a small settlement on Mount Athos. It is located on the southern coast of the Athonite peninsula between Xeropotamou Monastery and Simonopetra Monastery. It is used mainly as a port and an entry point to the Athonite ...
, Greece, likely site of ancient
Cleonae
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Daphne (Thrace)
Iasonion or Daphne was a town of ancient Thrace, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.
Its site is located near Beşiktaş in European Turkey
East Thrace or Eastern Thrace ( tr, Doğu Trakya or simply ''Trakya''; el, Ανατολι ...
, a town of ancient Thrace, now in Turkey
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Rablah
Rablah ( ar, ربلة; also spelled Rableh, Ribla or Ribleh) is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located southwest of Homs. Just east of the border with Lebanon, nearby localities include al-Nizariyah to the s ...
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Riblah
The ancient town of Riblah, today a tell covered by a cemetery not far from the town of Ribleh on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon, was in biblical times located on the northern frontier of the land of Canaan. The site lies on the east ...
, formerly also known by the name Daphne
Vessels
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''Daphne'' (brig), a ship that was wrecked in 1819
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SS ''Daphne'' (1883), a ship which sank disastrously in 1883
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HMS ''Daphne'', Royal Navy ships
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Princess Daphne Princess Daphne may refer to:
* Princess Daphne (''Dragon's Lair''), a character from ''Dragon's Lair''
* Princess Daphne (ship), a 1954 former vessel
{{Disambiguation ...
'', a cruise ship operated by Costa Cruises (1979–1997)
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''Daphné''-class submarine
*''Daphne''-class Seaward Defence Craft,
Royal Danish Navy
People
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Daphne (singer)
Daphne Njie Efundem (born 20 September 1989) known professionally as Daphne is a Cameroonian urban pop singer. She began her professional musical career with her song "Rastafari" and got popular via the song Calée. Daphné is married with pres ...
(born 1986), Cameroonian singer
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Daphne (given name) Daphne is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning laurel. It originates from Greek mythology, where Daphne (Greek: Δάφνη) was a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies ...
, a list of persons and fictional characters with the given name
Songs
*"Daphne", a song on several
Django Reinhardt albums, such as ''Djangology''; written in 1937
*"Daphne", a song from the 2002 1 Giant Leap album ''
1 Giant Leap
1 Giant Leap is a British electronic music duo consisting of the two principal artists, Jamie Catto ( Faithless founding member) and Duncan Bridgeman.
Career
Based in the UK, the two musicians set out to create a multimedia project that would ...
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*"Daphne", a song from the 2011
Lia Ices
Lia Ices is an American singer-songwriter from Westport, Connecticut, currently living in Northern California. While she has been performing and recording for several years, Ices gained prominence when her song "Love is Won", from her second st ...
album ''Grown Unknown''
*"Daphne", a song by British band Squeeze from their 1995 album
''Ridiculous''
*"Daphne", a song by Bat for Lashes from the album ''
The Haunted Man''
*"Daphne", a song from the 2001 John Paul Jones album ''
The Thunderthief
''The Thunderthief'' is John Paul Jones (musician), John Paul Jones's second solo studio album.
Track listing
All music and lyrics composed and written by John Paul Jones, except where otherwise noted.
# "Leafy Meadows" – 5:10
# "T ...
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Other uses
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''Daphne'' (2017 film), a British drama film
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Daphne (2007 film)
''Daphne'' is a 2007 British biographical drama film written by Amy Jenkins and directed by Clare Beavan. The film is based on the authorised biography, ''Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller'' by Margaret Forster. It ...
, a British biographical drama film
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Daphne (comedy)
Daphne is a British comedy trio made up of comedians Jason Forbes, Phil Wang and George Fouracres.
Together they are the creators, writers and stars of the BBC Radio 4 series '' Daphne Sounds Expensive''.
Background
Forbes, Wang and Fouracres ...
, a British comedy trio
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DAPHNE (emulator), an emulator of Laserdisc arcade games
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Daphne (''Re:Zero''), a character in the light novel series ''Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World''
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Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
is a Japanese anime television series animated by J.C.Staff and broadcast on TV Kanagawa from January to July 2004. The anime was originally licensed by Geneon USA. It is now licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
A manga adaptation, illustrated by ma ...
'', a 2004 anime
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Détecteur à Grande Acceptance pour la Physique Photonucléaire Expérimentale, a particle detector
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DAPHNE project, a European Commission-funded project under FP7 research funding
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Daphne Duck, a Disney character
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Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate, a birth control pill
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Daphne Blake, a Scooby Doo character.
See also
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Daffney (born 1975), American professional wrestler
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Dafney, surname
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Daphnia'', small planktonic crustaceans
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Daphnandra
''Daphnandra'' is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.
There are six species, occurring in New South Wales and Queensland:
*''Daphnandra apatela'' Schodde Soc ...
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**''Daphnidium'', synonym of ''
Lindera''
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Daphniphyllum''
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Daphnopsis
''Daphnopsis'' is a plant genus in the family Thymelaeaceae. There are 50 to 65 species distributed in the Neotropics. They are shrubs and small trees with tubular or bell-shaped flowers. Individuals are dioecious, with male and female flowers p ...
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Dafne (disambiguation)
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Dafni (disambiguation)
Dafni ( el, Δάφνη or Δαφνί, both deriving from the Greek word for "laurel") may refer to:
Greek places
* Dafni, Achaea, part of the municipal unit of Paion, Achaea
*Dafni, Aetolia-Acarnania, part of the municipal unit of Naupactus, Aetol ...
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Dafny (programming language)
Dafny is an imperative and functional compiled language that compiles to other programming languages, such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Go and Python. It supports formal specification through preconditions, postconditions, loop invariants, loop ...
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Daphne (Amaliada), Greece
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Daphne, Alabama metropolitan area
Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the pop ...
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Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne is a transformation myth from ancient Greek mythology, retold by Hellenistic and Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette.
History
The earliest known source of this myth is Parthenius, a Greek poet who lived during th ...
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Compromising Daphne''
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Daphne Civic Center
The Daphne Civic Center is a multipurpose convention and performing arts center located in Daphne, Alabama, United States (a suburb of Mobile). The Center features of exhibit and meeting space in the main exhibit hall, which also features a 37-b ...
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Daphne Laureola
''Daphne laureola'', commonly called spurge-laurel, is a shrub in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae. Despite the name, this woodland plant is neither a spurge nor a laurel. Its native range covers much of Europe and extends to Algeria, Mo ...
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Daphne Sounds Expensive''
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Daphne Walker (disambiguation) Daphne Walker may refer to:
*Daphne Walker (figure skater) (born c. 1925), British figure skater
*Daphne Walker (singer)
Daphne Walker (born 1930) is a New Zealand singer popular in the 1950s. Many of her recordings were with Bill Sevesi and B ...
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