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[[Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 065.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 065.jpg|''Narcissus'' by [[Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio]].]]
[[Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 065.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Image:Michelangelo Caravaggio 065.jpg|''Narcissus'' by [[Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio]].]]
'''Narcissus''' was a man in Greek myth who fell in love with his own reflection.
'''Narcissus''' was a man in Greek myth who fell in love with his own reflection.
In the Roman poet [[Ovid]]'s retelling of the myth, Narcissus is the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. [[Tiresias]], the seer, told his parents that the child "would live to an old age if it did not look at itself." Many nymphs and girls fell in love with him but he rejected them. One of these nymphs, [[Echo]], was so distraught over this rejection that she withdrew into a lonely spot and faded until all that was left was a plaintive whisper (the origin of the word "echo"). The goddess Nemesis heard the rejected girl's prayers for vengeance and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own reflection. He stayed watching his reflection and let himself die. It is quite possible, however, that the connection between Echo and Narcissus was entirely Ovid's own invention, for there is no earlier references to this story in literature.
==Links===
http://www.loggia.com/myth/echo.html
[[category:greek Mythology]]
[[category:greek Mythology]]