Narcissus Greek Myth. Narcissus is a legendarily handsome young man in greek mythology and the basis of a fertility myth. When narcissus sensed that someone was following him echo eventually.
However he only showed them disdain and contempt. One day while he was hunting in the woods the oread nymph echo spotted him and immediately fell for him. νάρκισσος nárkissos was a hunter from thespiae in boeotia who was known for his beauty.
The term narcissism is thus used for excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one s physical appearance.
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. Narcissus is a figure from greek mythology who was so impossibly handsome that he fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. 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. The story of narcissus dates back to ancient greece.