FLOWER-MYTHS:

NARCISSUS, HYACINTH,
ADONIS
 MYTH:

- an idea or story that is believed by

many people BUT that is not true

- a story that was told in an ancient

culture to explain the practice, belief,
or natural occurence
 NARCISSUS

-In Greek mythology , the son of the

river god Cephissus and the nymph
Liriope. He was distinguished for his
beauty.
• The story may have derived from the
ancient Greek superstition that it was
unlucky or even fatal to see one’s
own reflection.
 HYACINTH

• Hyacinthus in Greek legend, a young

man of Amyclae in Laconia.
• his great beauty attracted the love of
Apollo , who killed him accidentally
while teaching him to throw the discus;
others related that Zephyrus (or Boreas)
out of jealousy deflected the discus so
that it hit Hyacinthus on the head and
killed him.
• Out of his blood there grew the flower
called hyacinthos (perhaps a fritillary; not
the modern hyacinth), the petals of which
were marked with the mournful
exclamation AI, AI (“Alas”).
 ADONIS

• Adonis was the mortal lover of the

goddess Aphrodite
• He was conceived after Aphrodite cursed
his mother
• Myrrha to lust after her own father, King
Cinyras of Cyprus .
• The central idea of the myth is that of the
death and resurrection of Adonis, which
represent the decay of nature every winter
and its revival in spring.