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[12] [8] A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself. [12] [13] In all versions, his body disappears and all that is left is a narcissus flower. Narcissus at the Spring by Jan Roos depicts Narcissus gazing at his own reflection.
Despite the harshness of his rejection, Echo's love for Narcissus only grew. [6] Echo's fellow nymphs prayed to Nemesis to punish Narcissus with a love that was equally not reciprocated. Nemesis caused him to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water where he wasted away and died, unable to take his eyes away from the beautiful ...
In Ovid's account Echo is a beautiful nymph residing with the Muses, and Narcissus is a haughty prince. In The Lay of Narcissus, Echo is replaced by the princess Dané. Conversely, Narcissus loses the royal status he bore in Ovid's account: in this rendition he is no more than a commoner, a vassal of Dané's father, the King. [20]
In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster. Post-classical sources name her Galatea . According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [ 1 ]
The Cerastae were a people in Cyprus who offered to Zeus human sacrifice in the form of slaughtered guests. For breaking two taboos, the Cypriot goddess Aphrodite punished them by turning them all into bulls. [25] Cercopes: Monkeys: Zeus The Cercopes were a pair of unlawful and uncivilized brothers who were turned into monkeys by Zeus.
Three guests, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, after some disputation, agreed to have Paris of Troy choose the fairest one. Paris chose Aphrodite, she having bribed him with the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, wife of Menelaus. Consequently, Paris carried Helen off to Troy, and the Greeks invaded Troy for Helen's return.
Helen demurely obeys Aphrodite's command. [226] In Book V, Aphrodite charges into battle to rescue her son Aeneas from the Greek hero Diomedes. [227] Diomedes recognizes Aphrodite as a "weakling" goddess [227] and, thrusting his spear, nicks her wrist through her "ambrosial robe". [228] Aphrodite borrows Ares's chariot to ride back to Mount ...
There were once a king and queen, [11] rulers of an unnamed city, who had three daughters of conspicuous beauty. The youngest and most beautiful was Psyche, whose admirers, neglecting the proper worship of Aphrodite (love goddess Venus), instead prayed and made offerings to her. It was rumored that she was the second coming of Venus, or the ...