Where can i find the greek myth of Narcissus?

I'm looking for any work that employs the greek myth of Narcissus. I know it is in Ovid's Metamorphisis. Where else are there references to this story?

Where can i find the greek myth of Narcissus?
You can also find references to Narcissus in Pausanias' "Description of Greece" in the 2nd century AD:





http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pte...





as well as the papyrii found at Oxyrhynchus:





http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/papy...





Here's a site that makes comparisons among the different versions of the Narcissus myth:





http://articles.gourt.com/en/Narcissus%2...





In Ovid's version, the one who falls for Narcissus and has unrequited love is the nymph Echo; in the older versions (from Parsanias and the Oxyrhynchus papyrii), it's a male suitor, Ameinias, who loves Narcissus but is scorned.





Interesting stuff!





Hope this helps,





-s-
Reply:The myth of Narcissus has been a rich vein for artists to mine for at least two thousand years, beginning with the Roman poet Ovid (book III of Metamorphoses). This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets (e.g. Keats) and painters (Caravaggio, Poussin, Turner, Dalí, and Waterhouse). Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky used lonely Narcissus-type characters in his poems and novels, such as Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin in "The Double" (1846).In Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir(1830), there is a classic narcissist in the character of Mathilde. Says Prince Korasoff to Julien Sorel, the protagonist, with respect to his beloved:





She looks at herself instead of looking at you, and so doesn't know you. During the two or three little outbursts of passion she has allowed herself in your favor, she has, by a great effort of imagination, seen in you the hero of her dreams, and not yourself as you really are. (Page 401, 1953 Penguin Edition, trans. Margaret R.B. Shaw).





The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via the influence of Andre Gide's study of the myth, Traite du Narcisse ('The Treatise of the Narcissus', 1891), and the influence of Oscar Wilde.





In 20th century pop culture, Bob Dylan's song "License to Kill" refers indirectly to Narcissus: "Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool /And when he sees his reflection, he's fulfilled."!





"Supper's Ready" by Genesis (ca. 1972), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: "A young figure sits still by a pool / He's been stamped "Human Bacon" by some butchery tool / (He is you) / Social Security took care of this lad. / We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower. / A flower?" The movement is titled "How Dare I Be So Beautiful."

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