What is an Narcissus?

I think it has something to do with a Greek mythological figure. Please help.

What is an Narcissus?
You are correct; Narcissus was a Greek mythological figure: a boy with great beauty, and equally great pride. He turned away all his male suitors (remember: the Greeks were famous for homosexual practices - chief of which was pederasty). He gave one of his suitors a sword as a present, and said suitor killed himself with it. As he died, the suitor cursed Narcissus, praying that he would one day know the feeling of unrequited love. That happened when Narcissus caught sight of his reflection in a pool of water, and fell in love with aforementioned reflection, not knowing that he is looking at himself. Out of despair, he commits suicide.





Ovid tells another version of the tale in his Metamorphoses, though it still more or less works out the same way as the previous version.
Reply:As far as I remember, it was someone who thought he was really beautiful, and one day, he looked his face reflecting in a lake, and he was so stunned by his beauty, that he remained there without moving and died. He was later turned into a flower, the narcissus (hence the origin of word "narcissism")
Reply:It's a flower that looks like daffodil.





If you mean WHO is Narcissus, then the answer is a character from Greek mythology.
Reply:Narcissus was a god more interested in looking at himself in the lake and pond than anything else thus the telling someone they are narcisistic
Reply:It is a flower named after a Greek myth. The mental illness narcissism is to be in love with one's self. It comes from a myth that tells about a boy that was so in love with his own reflection that he turned into the flower.
Reply:Narcissus was a man who drank a love potion and then looked at himself in a pool's reflection, and was cursed to love only himself. It's where we get the word "narcissist."
Reply:check out wiki-pedia
Reply:Well Narcissus was a guy who was so beautiful everyone who looked at him awed at his beauty but he was so vain he didn't like anyone else. Well one day Echo a narf saw him and fell in love with him. Now echo had a curse juno the queen of gods put a curse that she [echo] could only speak the last words spoken to her . So one day when Narcissus was in the forest lost He said anybody here. and echo replies here. here.


Where are you ( Narcissus)


Where are u Echo)


R u close at hand (Narcissus


close at hand (echo


so when they finally found each other he turned away,.


Now Narcissus was getting thirst y as he stopped to get a drink from a lake he saw his reflection and strayed away there for day Narcissus fell in love with himself. Poor echo could only watch. so where Narcissus died a flower grew and people named it after Narcissus a vain but the most gorgeous man ever lived. and the flower was beautiful like him
Reply:A person who is a Narcissist is one who is in love with himself. It's from the Greek character Narcissus, who looked into a pond and fell in love with his own reflection. He pined away because he couldn't reach it, and his body became a flower--the narcissus, or daffodil.
Reply:Actually, it's a daffodil. Now if you're asking WHO Narcissus is/was, everyone else, more or less, has the right story.
Reply:It does. I will do my best to remember it!


The story of Echo and Narcissus is that a young woman was beautiful but talked too much. Anothet mythological figure (can't remember her name) made it so she could only speak what had already been spoken ( an echo). She fell in love with a beautiful young man, Narcissus, who ignored her.


When they finally spoke she thought that he wanted to be with her, but he had realized that he could see in face in a still pool of water, and spent all of his time doing that. So, in her anguish she died and he did as well.


Being narcissistic means to be stuck on yourself - or obsessed with yourself.


I think you will find the story in much better form than I presented it if you Google "Echo and Narcissus" or "Narcissus".
Reply:Well originally Narcissus was a mortal who was so vain that he always look at himself (either in a mirror or anything that is reflective). In the story, Narcissus saw his reflection of himself in the river and he was so taken by his beauty by the reflection that he stayed there until he literally starved to death. The gods took mercy on him and made him to the flower that is his namesake to this day.
Reply:A narcissus is a person who is in love with themselves. Narcissus was a man who loved his own image and would stare at his reflection and be mesmerized by it. He was totally in love with himself.
Reply:narcissus was a beautiful creature ( i think man but not sure) who was very vain. He fell in love with his own reflection when looking into a pool of water.





theres more to this story but i dont remember it all.
Reply:Yeah, narcissus means daffodil (technically, in Greek, a daffodil is a kitrinos narkissos, which means yellow narcissus.)





And I've never noticed that they have a bitter smell--mine smell fine, but they do make the water slimy if you keep them as cut flowers, so they don't go well with other flowers. Maybe if you use some bleach or pennies or something. I don't think that stuff ever works.





Narcissus thought too highly of himself, which led to the psychological term "narcissism", which is somebody who has an inflated self-opinion and often has a sense of entitlement. I guess some of them are attractive enough, but they aren't empathetic enough with other people and they think about themselves to excess.





Oh, and Hyacinth was a gorgeous Greek teenager (male) who got clocked in the head by a discus. Anemone means "wind flower", from Greek "anemos" (also an incredible music group.) Iris was the goddess of the rainbow. So Narcissus wasn't the only guy who had a flower named after him, but he was definitely the most annoying.
Reply:This young man looked into a pond and saw his reflection and fell in love with it. This is the way I heard it.
Reply:Narcissus was a mythological figure who was very self absorbed, and eventually fell in love with his own reflection in a pond, where he fell in when he leaned over to get closer. He was then turned to flowers on the bank. (that's where we get the name for the flower narcissus and the word narcissistic)
Reply:addendum to all the mythology answers.





The flower named after him has a bitter smell due to his personality, but look beautiful.

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