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The myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses. This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets (e.g. Keats and Alfred Edward Housman ) and painters ( Caravaggio , Poussin , Turner , Dalí (see Metamorphosis of Narcissus ...
Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the mountain nymph , Echo , into the story of Narcissus , the beautiful youth who rejected Echo and fell in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention.
Echo and Narcissus, a depiction of Echo and Narcissus featuring Cupid and his arrows. ( Nicolas Poussin , 1630, Louvre Museum , Paris ) The Lay of Narcissus , one of many titles by which the work is known, is Norman-French verse narrative written towards the end of the 12th century.
Narcissus was an extremely lovely but also vain youth who rejected all potential lovers. After his attention was directed to a pool of water, he fell in love with the image of his reflection. Unable to even touch the object of his passion, Narcissus pined and wasted away by the bank until only the narcissus flower was all that was left of him.
The term "narcissism" is derived from the Greek mythology of Narcissus, but was only coined at the close of the nineteenth century. Since then, narcissism has become a household word; in analytic literature, given the great preoccupation with the subject, the term is used more than almost any other'.
The narcissus has also frequently appeared in literature and the visual arts, and forms part of two important Graeco-Roman myths, that of the youth Narcissus (Greek: Νάρκισσος) who was turned into the flower of that name, and of the Goddess Kore, or Persephone (Greek: Περσεφόνη; Latin: Proserpina) daughter of the goddess ...
Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 oil painting by John William Waterhouse.It illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.. John William Waterhouse (1847–1917) was an English painter who, because of his style and themes, is generally classified as a Pre-Raphaelite.
The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus, on which he finds passage from Bombay to London. Suffering from tuberculosis, Wait becomes seriously ill almost from the outset, eliciting suspicion from much of the crew, though his ostensible plight arouses the humanitarian sympathies of many.