Narcissus Greek God. Narcissus was proud in that he disdained those who loved him causing some to take their own lives to prove their devotion to his striking beauty. 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.
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. Narcissus the son of the river god cephissus and the nymph leiriope was an extremely good looking greek youth. Although leiriope did not understand the prophecy at the time its meaning eventually became clear.
The goddess nemesis caused narcissus to fall in love with his own.
His beauty ultimately led to his death. Even the lovely nymph echo could not manage to tempt him from his self absorption. 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. 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.