Sunflower

:Sunflowers is also a series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh.

Greek myth

In Greek myth, a girl named Clytie fell in love with the sun god Apollo, and would do nothing but watch his chariot move across the sky. After nine days, she was transformed into a sunflower. However, the word "sunflower" and its cognates existed long before Helianthus annuus was brought to Europe, and it is thought that the myth (which is mentioned in Ovid's poem Metamorphoses) actually refers to the marigold.

Related Topics:
Greek - Clytie - Apollo - Chariot - Cognates - Europe - Ovid - Metamorphoses - Marigold

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