Greek Gods Narcissus. One day while he was hunting in the woods the oread nymph echo spotted him and immediately fell for him. Narcissus in greek mythology narcissus was a handsome youth from the city of thespiae in boeotia and was generally considered to be the son of the potamoi cephissus and the oceanid liriope although occasionally narcissus was named as the son of endymion and selene.
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According to myth his rejection of the love of the nymph echo or of the young man ameinias drew upon him the vengeance of the gods and he fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring and pined away. Narcissus is a legendarily handsome young man in greek mythology and the basis of a fertility myth. According to tzetzes he was a laconian hunter who loved everything beautiful.
Even the lovely nymph echo could not manage to tempt him from his self absorption.
Even the lovely nymph echo could not manage to tempt him from his self absorption. Narcissus didn t love anybody but himself and believed that he was the only one worth loving. Narcissus also had to do with the creation of echoes as we know them nowadays due to his encounter with the nymph echo. Narcissus name lives on as the flower into which he was transformed and as a synonym for those obsessed with their own appearance.
