Apollo and Daphne her arms already transforming into its branches as she flees and calls to her father to save her from Apollo. Artists such as Antonio del Pollaiolo and his brother Piero often manipulated scenes from Greek mythology into the setting of their time periods. In Pollaiolo's painting "Apollo and Daphne", both are shown dressed in Renaissance garments, with Daphne in the midst of transforming into the laurel tree. It hangs in the National Gallery in London. It has been argued that "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt is a painting symbolic of the kissing of Daphne by Apollo at the moment she
The Glass Bead Game story is taken from Greek legend of the nymph Castalia, who was transformed into an inspiration-granting fountain by the god Apollo. Freedman wrote in his biography of Hesse that the tensions caused by the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany directly contributed to the creation of the "Glass Bead Game" as a response to the oppressive times. "The educational province of Castalia, which provided a setting for the novel, came to resemble Hesse's childhood Swabia physically while assuming more and more the function of his adopted home, neutral Switzerland, which in turn embodied his own antidote to the crises