Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Echo and Narcissus (Ovid Line)
  Olympian gods / local metamorphosis — Echo; Narcissus · Roman transmission (Ovid) — Echo cursed by Hera; composite with Narcissus (distinct from Pausanias’s Thespian Narcissus)
• Narcissus of Thespiae (Pausanias)
  Local and lesser — Boeotian · Pausanian local (Thespiae); Greek alternatives to Ovid’s Echo romance

Places appearing with them

• Boeotian woodland
• Clear pool
• Mount Helicon
• Mount Helicon region
• Mountain slopes
• Ocean’s streams
• Spring of Narcissus

Themes

• Metamorphosis
• Prophecy
• Revenge