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- There’s no mention of Echo loving Narcissus. 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.
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Nov 30, 2023 · Conon wrote, “In Thespeia of Boeotia (a city not far from Helikon) a child was born, Narcissus, very handsome and dismissive of both Eros and lovers. While all the other lovers tried and gave up, Ameinias kept insisting and beseeching. Narcissus did not yield and sent him a sword instead.
Echo loved Narcissus, but she obviously found it hard to tell Narcissus how she felt about him, because she had already been cursed so that she could only repeat what others said, rather than speak for herself.
Despite the harshness of his rejection, Echo's love for Narcissus only grew. [5] Echo's fellow nymphs prayed to Nemesis to punish Narcissus with a love that was equally not reciprocated. Nemesis caused him to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water where he wasted away and died, unable to take his eyes away from the beautiful ...
Despite the harshness of his rejection, Echo's love for Narcissus only grew. [10] When Narcissus died, wasting away before his own reflection, consumed by a love that could not be, Echo mourned over his body.
Mar 8, 2023 · Echo was a Boeotian nymph who used her endless chatter to hide Zeus’ affairs from his jealous wife Hera. As punishment, she was cursed to only repeat the last words spoken to her. Because of this, the vain Narcissus spurned her love, and she faded into a disembodied voice—an “echo.”
Jul 7, 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 to old age, if he never looked at himself.
Mar 5, 2023 · Narcissus is a figure from Greek mythology who was so impossibly handsome that he fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. Even the lovely nymph Echo could not tempt him from his self-absorption.
