Echo and Narcissus is a Greek mythological story. It describes Echo as a nymph cursed by Hera to only be able to repeat the last words said. She falls in love with Narcissus but he rejects her love. Later, Narcissus sees his own reflection in a spring and falls in love with himself, wasting away as Echo had. He transforms into the narcissus flower. The story teaches about the dangers of excessive pride and self-love.
Echo and Narcissus is a Greek mythological story. It describes Echo as a nymph cursed by Hera to only be able to repeat the last words said. She falls in love with Narcissus but he rejects her love. Later, Narcissus sees his own reflection in a spring and falls in love with himself, wasting away as Echo had. He transforms into the narcissus flower. The story teaches about the dangers of excessive pride and self-love.
Echo and Narcissus is a Greek mythological story. It describes Echo as a nymph cursed by Hera to only be able to repeat the last words said. She falls in love with Narcissus but he rejects her love. Later, Narcissus sees his own reflection in a spring and falls in love with himself, wasting away as Echo had. He transforms into the narcissus flower. The story teaches about the dangers of excessive pride and self-love.
The Story is about a "talkative nymph" who is admired by the goddess Aphrodite for her magnificent voice and song. When she tricks Hera into believing that her husband, Zeus, was in the city, Hera curses Echo by making her only able to repeat the last words said, and couldn't say anything on her own. "Yet a chatterbox, had no other use of speech than she has now, that she could repeat only the last words out of many." This is the explanation of the aural effect which was named after her. She falls in love with Narcissus, whom she catches sight of when he is "chasing frightened deer into his nets." Eventually, after "burning with a closer flame," Echo's presence is revealed to Narcissus, who, after a comic, yet tragic scene, rejects her love. Echo prays in her mind of this to Aphrodite, who makes Echo disappear, until she "remains a voice" and "is heard by all." Then, Narcissus "tired from both his enthusiasm for hunting and from the heat" rests by a spring, and whilst drinking, "a new thirst grows inside him" and he is "captivated by the image of the beauty he has seen" and falls deeply in love with "all the things for which he himself is admired." He then wastes away with love for himself, echoing the manner in which Echo did earlier on. A while later his body is gone, and in its place is a narcissus flower. The pale flower is still found near river banks so that it can be reflected on the water.
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