Echo and Narcissus: A Philosophical Story About Identity
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The tale of Echo and Narcissus is one of the most famous in all of classical mythology and it has a pervasive influence on western culture. Ekho was an Oread. In Greek mythology, she is a mountain nymph. She dwelt on Mount Kithairon. Mount Kithairon or Cithaeron is well-known in Greek mythology in which the infant Oedipus was left to die. Narcissus was a hunter from Boeotia who was known for his beauty. He rejected all romantic advances including Echo’s love. Eventually he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, gazed at it for the rest of his life. After he died, in his place grew a flower bearing his name, Narcissus flower, commonly known as daffodil. Also he gave name to something else: “narcissism”. According to Psychology Narcissism involves cockiness, manipulativeness, selfishness, and power motives. In this video we tell the story of narcissus and echo. Then we talk about the importance of the myth and its impact on western writers from the Roman poet,
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