Phyllis
Phyllis and Demophon . Woodcut with the letter salutation from the early 16th century
Phyllis ( Greek Φυλλίς phullís , leaf, foliage, petal ') is a figure in Greek mythology .
The daughter of the Thracian king Sithon gave herself to death out of grief over the long absence of her lover Demophon and was transformed into a leafless almond tree , which, then embraced by Demophon, sprouted.
This story is the subject of the second letter from Ovid's Heroides .
In pastoral poems, Phyllis was often used as a name for lovesick shepherdesses.
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- Ruth Elisabeth Harder, Phyllis , in: Hubert Cancik , Helmuth Schneider (Ed.), Der Neue Pauly online.
- Ovid , Heroides - Letters of the Heroines, Latin / German , Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000.
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