Echo and Narcissus

Story

Echo and Narcissus meet in a forest. Echo quickly falls in love with Narcissus, but he rejects her. Echo is so upset that she withdraws from the world and is reduced to dust. Narcissus is cursed by the gods so that he can only fall in love with his own reflection.

The version of the story we know best today is the version found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a narrative poem which tells the history of the world from creation to Rome in Ovid’s day and which includes much of the Greek mythology inherited by the Romans. In earlier Greek versions Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection and pines with unrequited love for himself.  When he dies his corpse turns into the flowers that bear his name. 

Why we chose it

Greek myths are very popular with children and teenagers today.