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  1. And although the story of Echo and Narcissus strikes us as quintessential Greek myth, the introduction of Echo into the tale of Narcissus appears to have been the invention of a Roman poet, Ovid, in his Metamorphoses. Echo was an Oread or mountain nymph whom Zeus liked to visit for … carnal relations. Hera, Zeus’ wife, was suspicious of ...

  2. Active Themes. Narcissus asks who’s there, and Echo repeats his question. Startled by his own voice’s reflection, Narcissus tells the voice to come out so they can be together. Echo repeats Narcissus’s words, reveals herself, and tries to embrace him. Horrified, Narcissus scolds her away. She flees in embarrassment, repeating his insults.

  3. Jul 7, 2018 · The myth of Narcissus is a cautionary Classical story of solipsism and self-obsession. History Today | Published in History Today Volume 68 Issue 7 July 2018. Narcissus stares at his reflection, while his rejected suitor, Echo, looks on. The son of the river god Cephissus and the naiad, or nymph, Liriope, it was said that Narcissus would live ...

  4. The myth of Echo and Narcissus delves into the boundaries between love and obsession. It tells the story of Echo, a nymph cursed to repeat the words of others, and Narcissus, a young man enraptured by his own beauty. As their paths intertwine, tragedy unfolds, with Echo’s unrequited love and Narcissus ’ self-obsession leading to their ...

  5. Jun 2, 2022 · OCR GCSE Latin Set Text 2023 and 2024. Echo et Narcissus is an extract from the third book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Transformations), published in the Cambridge Latin Anthology. The Metamorphoses was a complex and unusual epic poem, which chronicled more than 200 myths from the ancient world. Many scholars argue that it defies classification ...

  6. Story summary. A woman gives birth to a beautiful boy, called Narcissus, and is told by the prophet, Teiresias, that he will have a long life unless he learns to know himself. Meanwhile Echo, a talkative wood nymph, falls foul of the goddess Hera. The chatterbox is punished and left only able to repeat the last words of others.

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  8. Bk III:339-358 Echo sees Narcissus Famous throughout all the Aonian cities, Tiresias gave faultless answers to people who consulted him. Dusky Liriope , the Naiad , was the first to test the truth and the accuracy of his words, whom once the river-god Cephisus clasped in his winding streams, and took by force under the waves.

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