Can someone please tell me the story of Narcissus?

i think i already read that one before. but no matter how hard i try to remember, i just cant. %26gt;.%26lt;

Can someone please tell me the story of Narcissus?
Narcissus was an extremely good-looking guy who loved himself, and who cared only about himself. He was loved by a nymph Echo, who was cursed with silence because she had annoyed a goddess with her incessant talking. She could only repeat the words of others. So, Echo followed Narcissus around, waiting for him to say something that she could repeat. But, Narcissus was so absorbed in himself that he never noticed her. One Day, as Narcissus bent down to take a drink of water out of a small pool, he saw his reflection in the water. He immediately fell in love with himself, and sat there for hours. Finally, he said to his reflection, "I love you." Echo, overjoyed, repeated, "I love you." However, Narcisssus failed to hear her: he couldn't comprehend anything or anyone but his beautiful reflection. He sat there until he died of hunger and thirst, still gazing at himself. Echo wandered the woods until she dwindled into nothing: only her voice remains.
Reply:Narcissus (nar-SISS-us) Handsome youth who was caused to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool for breaking the heart of a suitor. The nymph Echo fell in love with him but could not adequately express her passion because she had been condemned only to repeat the words of others. Her adoration unrequited, she wasted away until only her voice remained. Narcissus also languished beside the pool, dying either from starvation or excessive self-love.
Reply:he never fell in love with anyone bcuz no one was good enough for him and then he was looking in a pond and fell in love with his reflection. He could never look a away and died there and then the narcissus flower grew there.


The story of Echo is similar, I believe. She had a beautiful voice and some goddess was jealous of her and put her voice in the center of mountains and the end of caves where it would get lost and only "echo" other people's voices.


For some reason (i think a john william waterhouse painting) i think of them as a pair.


also, this is the greek pantheon.
Reply:Let me make it easy for you to remember. Imagine a guy like Brad Pitt/ tom cruise too much preoccupied with himself and always looking up in the mirror to see how good he is that he does not notice a Jennifer Aniston/Angelina Jolie/Nicole Kidman/Katie Holmes madly in love with him who do not get it reciprocated. Seeing this, Goddess of love curses him to become a flower and continue to see his reflection in the river or creek in Hollywood.
Reply:The version I read didn't have Echo instead it just had him. His parents were warned never to let him stare at his reflection. Long story short he went to a pond stared at himself then turned into a flower called a Narcissus something.


That's the version I heard at least.
Reply:In the Roman mythology, Narcissus is the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. Tiresias, the seer, told his parents that the child "would live to an old age if it did not look at itself." Many nymphs and girls fell in love with him but he rejected them. One of these nymphs, Echo, was so distraught over this rejection that she withdrew into a lonely spot and faded until all that was left was a plaintive whisper. The goddess Nemesis heard the rejected girls prayers for vengeance and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own reflection. He stayed watching his reflection and let himself die.





In Greek mythology, Narcissus lived in the city of Thespiae. A young man, Ameinias, was in love with Narcissus, but he rejected Ameinias' love. He grew tired of Ameinias' affections and sent him a present of a sword. Ameinias killed himself with the sword in front of Narcissus' door and as he died, he called curses upon Narcissus. One day Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a spring and, in desperation, killed himself.
Reply:Narcissus, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. Tiresias, the seer, told his parents that the child "would live to an old age if it did not look at itself." Many nymphs and girls fell in love with him but he rejected them.





One of these nymphs, Echo, was so distraught over this rejection that she withdrew into a lonely spot and faded until all that was left was a plaintive whisper.... an echo.





The goddess Nemesis heard the rejected girls prayers for vengeance and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with his own reflection. He stayed watching his reflection and let himself die.





There is more to the myth but this is the gist of it.
Reply:The first 3 are as far as my memory of the legends %26amp; storys of the Greek Gods, Goddesses, Nymths, Fauns eta goes about Narcissus.


But my favorite, is A B's modern Hollywood version.