Treurs game and comedy, Noah van der Meer (II), 1751 - 1822 print On stage, Apollo runs after the fleeing Daphne, whose hands are already changing into bay branches. To the left of the theater floor is Melpomene, the muse of the mourning game. On the right is Thalia, the muse of the comedy. In the foreground on the left, the philosopher Heraclitus hits his hand in front of his face, laughs on the right and points the philosopher Democritus. Between them the Lier, the attribute of Apollo. Leiden paper etching Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a
Treurs game and comedy, Noah van der Meer (II), 1751 - 1822 print On stage, Apollo runs after the fleeing Daphne, whose hands are already changing into bay branches. To the left of the theater floor is Melpomene, the muse of the mourning game. On the right is Thalia, the muse of the comedy. In the foreground on the left, the philosopher Heraclitus hits his hand in front of his face, laughs on the right and points the philosopher Democritus. Between them the Lier, the attribute of Apollo. Leiden paper etching Daphne changed into a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne is changed into a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548). Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher, and Democritus, the laughing philosopher. Melpomene (one of the Muses); 'Melpomene' (Ripa). Thalia (one of the Muses); 'Talia' (Ripa). lyre, cithara, psaltery
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