![]() ![]() ![]() It chronicled more than 250 Classical myths and was a huge influence on Dante and Shakespeare. The story of Echo and Narcissus is best known from book three of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a Latin narrative poem in 15 parts which emerged around AD 8, whose unifying theme is transformation. It was heard by the goddess Nemesis, who, in response, made Narcissus fall in love with his own reflection, at which he stared until he died. One of them, Echo, was so upset by his rejection that she withdrew from the world to waste away. He had gained many female admirers, entranced by his beauty, but he rejected them all. 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. Narcissus stares at his reflection, while his rejected suitor, Echo, looks on. ![]()
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