Daphne

Genre/Style: Pop Punk

Touchstones: Blink-182, “I Miss You,” What’s My Age Again?,” “ The Rock Show,” “Dammit”; Boxcar Racer, “There Is”

Themes:

Myth: Daphne and Apollo

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 4.441-567 (8 AD)

Read Ovid's version of the myth at the Perseus Project (ed. Hugo Magnus 1892)
Read A.S. Kline's English translation at the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection