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KRIZEL B. VILLANUEVA - DISCUSSION FASCILITATOR
LEICY ANN SUYU - VOCABULARY ENRICHER
SHULAMITE DUCA - SUMMARIZER
CHESKA TELAN - COMMENTATOR
SHEILA MAE LOZANO - TRAVEL TRACER
KRESSA RAMIREZ - ILLUSTRATOR
PRIMA ROSE TULIAO - VIDEO PRESENTOR
MEICY ASUNCION - REFLECTOR
 WHAT IS IT
 It is an episode from OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
 It is a Latin mythological epic from Augustan
period
NARCIS
ALL ABOUT?
 It is told from the 3rd book of Metamorphoses
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 All about the talkative nymph admired by
Aphrodite, and wasA SUS
cursed by Hera
 And a beautiful young man admired by many

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 QUESTIONS TO
PONDER
1. What does this myth tell us?

2. What kind of character is

Narcissus?
 3. Do you think Narcissus
deserves his fate?

4. What does this myth suggest

about physical beauty in
ancient culture?
 5. What do you think Ovid’s
getting at with the
transformation of Echo and
Narcissus?

6. Why is Narcissus
transformed into a flower and
Echo to be a voice?
7. What does the myth suggest
about the relationship between
beauty and desire?

8. If you are going to transform

when you die, what would it
be?
ENRICHING YOUR
VOCABULARY!
TREACHERY
BUSHES
ENAMOURED
SHUN
MIMICKED
GAUNT
CHARACTERS
NARCISSUS
ECHO
HERA
TEIRESIAS
NEMESIS
 THEMES OF THE
MYTH
PRIDE

LOVE AND LUST

TRANSFORMATION
 THEMES OF THE
MYTH

VENGEANCE

MALE ABUSE OF FEMALES

 SYMBOLS
NARCISSUS - FLOWER

RIVER WATER - MIRROR

 COMMENTARIE
S
“You will always have the last
word, but no power to speak
first!” - Hera
 COMMENTARIE
S
Now I know, he cried, “What
others have suffered from me,
for I burn with love of myself –
and yet how can I reach that
loveliness I see mirrored in the
water?” - Narcissus
 COMMENTARIE
S
“I will die before I give you
power over me” - Narcissus
…Echo hid her blushes and
shame in a lonely cave
 STORY SETTING
WILD, LONELY MOUNTAINS OF
GREECE
IN THE CAVE
ON A POND
Thank you!