Echo and narcissus? please helppp!?

i read the greek myth about echo and narcissus (probably spelled wrong) but i don't really understand it... can you help?





i have some questions:


what curse does aphrodite place on narcissus?


how does narcissus die and rebirth?


what is a major flaw of narcissus?








thanks so muchh..

Echo and narcissus? please helppp!?
1. The god was not aphrodite. It was Nemesis, goddess of revenge. She made him fall in love with himself while he was looking into a pond.





2.Narcissus dies of tiredness and starvation, and reborn as flower(of course, Narcissus)





3. He thought no woman was good enough for him.
Reply:that he will fall in love with himself


he wastes away looking at his own reflection and then is reborn as a flower


his egotism.
Reply:Our story begins with Echo and Zeus. That ever-cheatin' God was at it again, this time with the young nymph Echo. Now, at that time (just in case you may have picked up on the significance of her name) Echo was a nymph like any other and a very talkative one at that. They were making out or making love or whatever, believing that all was well. But Hera was NOT a happy camper. She had followed Zeus, expecting JUST that kind of behavior out of him. She came down to Earth to apprehend her "too-much-love-for-one-woman" husband, but Zeus, being godly, sensed her coming. He instructed Echo to keep Hera busy until he could get away.





Echo did just that. Hera confronted her with the affair, but Echo created a long and very untrue story for Hera, giving her lover enough time to escape. Now, Rhea (Hera's mom) didn't raise no fool. She knew she had been tricked, and by a nymph at that! She turned on Echo and declared:








"That tongue of yours, by which I have been tricked, shall have its power curtailed and enjoy the briefest use of speech."


Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.365





From that moment on the talkative Echo could barely use her voice, and could only repeat the words that those around her said. She was lonely, and couldn't really talk to other nymphs because of her condition, and secluded herself deep in the woods.








One day, a very handsome young man came along. His name, surprise surprise, was Narcissus. Echo fell in love with him at once. Echo wanted to call out, "Wait! I love you!" But her voice was frozen in her throat by Hera's curse. The young man went deeper and deeper into the forest, until he came upon a calm stream. He was thirsty and so he bent over to drink, but as he leaned over he caught sight of his reflection in the water. He was as taken by his beauty as Echo had been, but without her barrier. He immediatly spoke to his reflection, "I love you." Echo, nearby and hearing her chance quickly responded, "love you . . ." But it was too late, Narcissus was too engrossed with himself to notice the nymph. His love was his obsession and would not leave the stream to eat, nor disturb his image to drink and so he died of thirst and hunger and unrequited self-love. Where he had lain a flower grew, the narcissus, the same flower that wooed the innocent Persephone. Poor Echo pined away and died for the same things, but when she died not even her bones remained, some say they were turned to stone. But Gaia preserved Echo's voice, the one thing she had been denied in life, and to this day her voice sounds everywhere.





Another story of Echo excludes Narcissus altogether. In this version she was educated by Nymphs and taught music by the Muses. She fled from all men, and loved her virginity. Pan became angry with her and attacked her music because he couldn't touch her beauty. He made the goatherds and shepherds insane and they ripped poor Echo apart and flung her pieces across the Earth. But Gaia buried them and preserved their beauty and the Muses decreed that they would forever sing out, imitating all things.





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'Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen


Within thy airy shell


By slow Meander's margent green,


And in the violet-embroidered vale


Where the lovelorn nightingale


Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:


Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair


That likest thy Narcissus are?'





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Reply:Aphrodite cursed Narcissus because of his offensiveness in the face of romantic love, she cursed Narcissus to fall in love with something that would never return his love.





Narcissus plunged a dagger in his heart and died, calling out a last goodbye to his reflected image. Where his blood soaked the earth sprung up the white narcissus flower with its red corollary.





As a handsome youth he left a trail of broken hearts from rejected lovers of both sexes. Narcissus wanted nothing to do with falling in love from anyone and rebuffed all attempts at romance.
Reply:1. Aphrodite makes Narcissus not able to love anyone but himself, and so he falls in love with his reflection (himself) and dies of grief because his love is not returned.





2. Narcissus dies of starvation and fatigue because he wont leave the pond (in love with his reflection) and his rebirth is this: dirt covers his corpse and he is reborn into a fragrant flower.





3. the major flaw in Narcissus is that he thinks no woman is good enough for him





(Aphrodite is a goddess of love not some god of revenge, just so ya know ;)





this is almost exactly like an assignment i just had, except we had more questions. anyway, i got 100% on it so i just copied those answers to here.








--May Luck Follow You And Echo In Your Footsteps--


-Fire of the Dragon Heart

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