mad Clytie,/Whose head is turned by the sun;". William Blake's poem Ah! Sun-flower has been suggested to allude to the myth of Clytie. The sunflower (which was not Clytie's original flower) ever since her myth, has "been an emblem of the faithful subject", in three or four ways: the "image of a soul devoted to the god or God, originally a Platonic concept", as "an image of the Virgin devoted to Christ"; or "an image - in the strictly Ovidian sense - of the lover devoted to the beloved". Northrop Frye claimed that Clytie's metamorphosis tale is at the 'core' of the poem. Gallery Genealogy See also 73 Klytia, a main-belt asteroid named after this nymph. Smilax, another nymph transformed into a plant over love. Mecon, a goddess' lover who was transformed into a flower. Psalacantha, another nymph transformed into a flower for trying to separate a god from his mortal lover. Heliotrope (color) Acantha Footnotes Notes References Primary sources Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Lateinische Mythographen: Lactantius Placidus, Argumente der Metamorphosen Ovids, erstes heft, Dr. B. Bunte, Bremen, 1852, J. Kühtmann & Comp. Paradoxographoe, by Anton Westermann, Harvard College Library, 1839, London. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Books 1-11, translated by John Bostock (1773-1846), M.D., F.R.S. Henry T. Riley (1816-1878), Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, first published 1855. Online text available at topos.text. Publii Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia: IV. voluminibus comprehensa : cum integris Jacobi Micylli, Herculis Ciofani, et Danielis Heinsii notis, et Nicolai Heinsii curis secundis, et aliorum singulas partes, partim integris, parti excerptis, adnotationibus, vol. II. Google books. Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Publis Ovidius Naso. Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library No. 42. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977, first published 1916. . Online version at Harvard University Press. Secondary sources Berens, E. M., The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, Blackie & Son, Old Bailey, E.C., Glasgow, Endinburgh and Dublin. 1880.