The Hyacinth symbolizes sport and rashness in the Victorian lexicon of flowers. The classic story goes that Zephyrus was so jealous of Apollo and Hyacinth's love that he threw or blew a discus striking the mortal dead. Apollo in his grief turned Hyacinth into a flower. Ovid has said that it was Apollo's tears that turned the hyacinth blue. Here the canvas is covered in a Greek key design and laurel wreaths while Apollo's tears are raining down amongst the golden discus in which drawings of Hyacinth and Zephyrus are lifted from a Greek kylix circa 490 BC.