Echo and Narcissus

Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age.

[3] During the hunt, Narcissus became separated from his companions and called out, ‘is anyone there,’ and heard the nymph repeat his words.

[6] Echo's fellow nymphs prayed to Nemesis to punish Narcissus with a love that was equally not reciprocated.

Nemesis caused him to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water where he wasted away and died, unable to take his eyes away from the beautiful youth he did not recognise as himself.

All that was left of Narcissus was the six-petalled white flower arranged around a golden centre that was named after him.

Though she was immortal, her body faded and her bones turned to stone until all that remained of Echo was the sound of her voice.