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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 8297687, member: 83956&quot;]I enjoy teaching this myth in my world literature courses. I always show this fine Khan Academy video on the Bernini sculpture:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/baroque-art1/baroque-italy/v/bernini-apollo-and-daphne-1622-25" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/baroque-art1/baroque-italy/v/bernini-apollo-and-daphne-1622-25" rel="nofollow">https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/baroque-art1/baroque-italy/v/bernini-apollo-and-daphne-1622-25</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;ve never been to the Borghese Gallery in Rome, try to make it. Since the Gallery limits the number of guests and restricts a particular time, it never feels overcrowded the way other Roman sites are. And if you can out-wait other tourists, you may have some works all to yourself towards the end of your allotted time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Students become quite engaged in considering what this myth says--and continues to say--about power, assault, privilege, and consent:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; factis modo laurea ramis / adnuit utque caput <span style="color: #ff0000">visa est</span> agitasse cacumen</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>•Ramus; branch</i></p><p><i>•Adnuo: assent, approve, confirm by a nod.</i></p><p><i>•Cacumen: summit; top.</i></p><p><i>•Visa est “is seen/seems.”</i></p><p><i>•Ago: to move; to set in motion.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;In this way [modo] with branches having been made [ramis factis], the laurel confirms with a nod and the summit <span style="color: #ff0000">seems </span>to have moved...&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Who is interpreting Daphne&#039;s actions here? Apollo? Ovid? Is Daphne acquiescing to her transformation to escape sexual assault, or is that how Apollo chooses to interpret the laurel tree&#039;s movement? So much depends upon how <i>visa est</i> is translated. Is Daphne&#039;s metamorphosis a consolation...or a tragedy?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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