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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Echo #85669 11/04/2002 10:02 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 I had forgotten that Echo was a nymph who incurred anger of Hera, who decreed that she would never again be able to speak, except to repeat someone else's words. And she had hopeless infatuation with Narcissus, who is memorialized in "narcissism because he fell in love with his own reflection, fell in and drowned. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: Echo #85670 12/07/2002 9:01 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 122 Poland, Cracow rav member rav member Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 122 Poland, Cracow As far as I know, Narcissus (or however it's written in English) did not drown. There are a few versions of this myth, but none says about drowning. Instead, Ovidius says, Narcissus after watching himself in the stream was so insensible for everything that he died. On the other hand, the Beotian version says tha he comitted siucide. And this is, I think, the most popular release. That would be all for the sake of commentary, as we say in my country (to tell truth it sounds terribly in English :-/). *** sorry for my laziness ;) Poland is the country. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: Echo #85671 12/07/2002 1:47 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont welcome, rav! which country would that be? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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