lesnobots.blogg.se - The echo never fades

As it happens, Echo is on hand to stall Hera with mindless chatter so that Zeus can escape.

Zeus does a lot of frolicking, if you know what we mean.

One afternoon, Hera comes looking for Zeus, afraid that he's out frolicking with the nymphs again.

Echo is a sexy young mountain nymph (a spirit who lives in the mountains) whose only downfall is that she talks too much.

Here's what goes down in Echo's mini-story:.

We can say that he's using a frame narrative, which means that one story forms a frame around another story. To do this, he tells us a short story inside the story we're already reading.

Here Ovid takes a moment to introduce us to Echo.

Anyway, Narcissus is sixteen and he's out hunting deer when he's spotted by a young nymph named Echo.

Isn't it great how stories are able to skip the boring stuff? The first fifteen years of Narcissus's life, for instance-terribly boring.

The story fast forwards, and suddenly Narcissus is sixteen years old.

What the stink is that supposed to mean? We're not sure yet, but keep this prophecy in mind-it'll come in handy later.

Tiresias answers, "Yes, if he never knows himself." Anyway, at the beginning of this story, Narcissus's mother, Liriope, asks Tiresias if her son will live to old age.Turns out Tiresias actually spent seven years as a woman (He interrupted two snakes while they were mating, and they turned him into a girl.) But that's a different story.The myth of Echo and Narcissus opens with a short section about the prophet, Tiresias.The story is included as part of The Metamorphoses, a book that Ovid wrote about the origins and history of Roman culture. Just FYI, this summary is based on a version of the story written by the Roman poet, Ovid. Unable to capture his reflection, Narcissus stays by the pond until he starves to death.

When Narcissus sees his reflection in the water of the pool he falls hopelessly in love-with himself. Meanwhile, Narcissus stops for a drink at a small pond.

Echo proceeds to pine over Narcissus until her body withers away and only her voice is left. How It (Supposedly) Went Down The Short StoryĮcho falls in love with Narcissus, but Narcissus isn't into it.