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Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph , Echo , into the story of Narcissus , the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
Echo and Narcissus, a depiction of Echo and Narcissus featuring Cupid and his arrows. (Nicolas Poussin, 1630, Louvre Museum, Paris) The Lay of Narcissus, one of many titles by which the work is known, is a Norman-French verse narrative written towards the end of the 12th century. In the four manuscripts that remain, an unknown author borrows ...
Écho et Narcisse (Echo and Narcissus) is a 1779 drame lyrique in three acts, the last original opera written by Christoph Willibald Gluck, his sixth for the French stage. The libretto, written by Louis-Théodore de Tschudi, tells the story of the love between Echo and Narcissus.
Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 oil painting by John William Waterhouse.It illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.. John William Waterhouse (1847–1917) was an English painter who, because of his style and themes, is generally classified as a Pre-Raphaelite.
A. E. Housman refers to the 'Greek Lad', Narcissus, in his poem "Look not in my Eyes" from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth. At the end of the poem stands a jonquil, a variety of daffodil, Narcissus jonquilla, which like Narcissus looks sadly down into the water.
Clapham was the author of Narcissus (1591), a poem written in Latin hexameters treating the youth as a warning against the dangers of philautia (self-admiration). It is based on Ovid's account of Echo and Narcissus in the Metamorphoses (III.339–510) and contains echoes of Virgil, especially Book VI of the Aeneid. [2]
The poem deals with the love of the goddess Venus for Prince Adonis, ... Echo and Narcissus, Hero and Leander, Polyphemus and numerous others. Thus the poem, ...
Echo and Narcissus (Waterhouse painting) a presently stubby article on the painting; John William Waterhouse the artist; Echo and Narcissus, the article about the poem; Walker Art Gallery, where it is held; and Narcissus (plant). FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings Creator John William Waterhouse