Narcissus Greek The son of the river god Cephissus and Liriope.
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Narcissus Greek The son of the river god Cephissus and Liriope. He was a beautiful man. When he rejected the love of Echo, a Nymph, Nemesis, the goddess of vegeance, condemned Narcissus to reject all love except that of his own image reflected in a pool. Narcissus pined away and changed into a beautiful flower that bears his name. The story of Echo and Narcissus is told by Ovid in Metamorphoses. It belongs to later Greek mythology.
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