Echo’s love for Narcissus is ill-fated: Narcissus rejects Echo and falls in love with his own reflection. Bereft of her own voice, the nymph can only echo the hunter’s words, which included ...

Echo and Narcissus is one of the most famous, and perplexing, Greek myths. Narcissus is so self-absorbed that he ends up killing Echo, and himself.

Long ago a beautiful boy was born to a nymph known as Liriope. At his birth, an oracle announced his fate. “He will live for a long time, forever perhaps,” the oracle told Liriope, &#82… ...

Echo spent the rest of her days pining for Narcissus, and slowly withered away until there was nothing left of her but her voice. The Narcissus flower, or daffodil. Source: Couleur/Pixabay ...

Echo and Narcissus fall into a mirroring dance of love, in which Echo promenades and lifts Narcissus like a ballerina. But when Narcissus’s reflection (the equally beautiful Cemiyon Barber) ...

Narcissus and Echo “Ah, what beauty lies here...But the moment I reach for it, it shuns me," Narcissus said when he saw his reflection. From our online archive ...

In Echo & Narcissus..., two teenage boys spend a 1999 night going from a Jersey diner to the shore, discussing their closeted sexuality.

Echo’s love for Narcissus is ill-fated: Narcissus rejects Echo and falls in love with his own reflection. Bereft of her own voice, the nymph can only echo the hunter’s words, which included ...