metamorphoses

The Transformation of Daphne: Flight and Faith

Pursued by Apollo, the nymph Daphne prays for deliverance and becomes the laurel — Rome’s eternal symbol of purity, freedom, and divine restraint.

The satyr Marsyas challenges Apollo to a contest of music and learns that passion without discipline ends in pain — and wisdom.

King Midas favors Pan’s wild song over Apollo’s divine harmony and earns a lesson in humility — the ears of a donkey.

After Eurydice’s loss, Orpheus devotes his life to Apollo’s art and meets death at the hands of Bacchus’s followers — yet his song lives forever.

Jupiter’s flood destroys a corrupt world, but Deucalion and Pyrrha survive through faith and reason to rebuild humanity from stone.

Orpheus descends to the underworld to reclaim Eurydice, proving that music can move gods — but not defy the law of death.

Two gods test a town and bless the only open door. Baucis and Philemon turn hospitality into holiness, and love into a living temple.

The full Roman myth of Phaethon — the son of Sol who seized the reins of the sun and fell, teaching the balance between courage and wisdom.

The full Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche — a story of love, trials, and the soul’s journey toward divine understanding.