Daphne the slopes of Mount Cnacadion near the Spartan frontier, had her own sacred laurel trees. At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th- and 6th-century BCE temple to "Apollo Daphnephoros", "Apollo, laurel-bearer", or "carrying off Daphne", a "place where the citizens are to take the oath", is identified in inscriptions. Daphne Daphne (; , meaning "laurel") a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. She is said by ancient sources variously to have been a daughter of the river god Peneus and
Afternoon of a Nymph of showbiz." A contemporary reviewer, Maurice Wiggins in "The Sunday Times" described the play negatively as being "a pretentious affair". Hendry and Munro married in 1963. Afternoon of a Nymph Afternoon of a Nymph is an episode of the British "Armchair Theatre" series made by the ITV franchise holder ABC Television and first broadcast by the ITV network on 30 September 1962. It was written by Robert Muller and features Janet Munro and Ian Hendry in the lead roles. It was directed by Philip Saville and produced by Sydney Newman. The second of Muller's seven plays for "Armchair Theatre", Mark