Narcissist Greek God. The story of narcissus dates back to ancient greece. When narcissus sensed that someone was following him echo eventually.
He experiences a particularly extreme form of self love which leads to his death and transformation into a narcissus flower fit to attract the goddess persephone on her way to hades. Even the lovely nymph echo could not manage to tempt him from his self absorption. Greek mythology is known to associate the myths with nature and the flower narcissus would be a reminder of the fate of the beautiful man.
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.
However his rejection of the love of the nymph echo or in an earlier version of the young man. The word narcissism originates from the greek myth of narcissus a handsome young hunter known for his beauty. However his rejection of the love of the nymph echo or in an earlier version of the young man. In greek mythology narcissus n ɑːr ˈ s ɪ s ə s.