When Apoll laughed at him, Heros made him to fall in love with the nymph Daphne, while she was stricken by the indifference arrow. Apoll pursued Daphne up hill and down dale, but when he was going to catch her up she was changed into a laurel plant. Since then this plant became the sacred plant to the god of art. It is for this reason that poets are depicted crowned by the laurel and the degree has taken its name from it. Apoll was an important god who had little intimacy with human beings. He was the god of the sun, as well as the protector of arts and poetry. He crossed the sky driving a chariot made by Hephaestus.
