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 Saucy Arethusa frigate of the Royal Navy, named "HMS Arethusa", which was originally built in 1757 as a French privateer under the name "Pélerine", renamed "Aréthuse" in early 1758 when purchased for the French Navy, from whom she was captured in 1759. According to Greek mythology, the nymph Arethusa, for whom the ship was named, was transformed by Artemis into a fountain. The song chronicles an engagement in the English Channel on June 17, 1778 between the "Arethusa" and the French frigate, "Belle Poule".. It opens When Sir Henry Wood wrote his "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" in 1905 a version of