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On Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's A Fada Oriana, the eponymous protagonist is punished with mortality for abandoning her duties in order to stare at herself in the surface of a river. Joseph Conrad's novel The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' features a merchant ship named Narcissus. An incident involving the ship, and the difficult decisions made ...
Narcissus and Echo (45–79 AD), wall painting from Pompeii Echo and Narcissus (1903), a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation by John William Waterhouse Narcissus & Echo (2006–2022), a modern-day interpretation by David Revoy. Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age.
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 one source, he is also noted for his physical beauty. [8] It is believed that his name comes from the Phoenician word kinnor (Greek: κινύρα) – an eastern string instrument. It is quite possible that it was a deliberate play on words, because the legend says that Cinyras was a singer and he posed a musical challenge to Apollo and ...
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.
[a] His name is compounded of his parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite. [1] He was one of the Erotes [ citation needed ] . Because Hermaphroditus was a child of Hermes, and consequently a great-grandchild of Atlas (Hermes's mother Maia was the daughter of Atlas), he is sometimes called Atlantiades ( Greek : Ἀτλαντιάδης ).
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 ...
The Last Watch of Hero by Frederic Leighton, depicting Hero anxiously waiting for Leander during the storm. Hero and Leander (/ ˈ h iː r oʊ /, / l iː ˈ æ n d ər /) is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώ, Hērṓ; [hɛː.rɔ̌ː]), a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and ...