Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES Echo, Narcissus and Anteros, Greco-Roman mosaic from Daphne C3rd A.D., Hatay Archaeology Museum 365-401.) There were in Greece certain porticoes, called the Porticoes of Echo, on account of the echo which was heard there thus, there was one stoa at Hermione with a threefold, and one at Olympia with a sevenfold echo. Echo in this state fell desperately in love with Narcissus, but as her love was not returned, she pined away in grief, so that in the end there remained of her nothing but her voice. Hera, however, found out the deception, and she punished Echo by changing her into an echo, that is, a being with no control over its tongue, which is neither able to speak before anybody else has spoken, nor to be silent when somebody else has spoken. In this manner Hera was not able to detect her faithless husband, and the nymphs had time to escape. In ancient Greek vase painting Ekho was depicted as a winged nymph with her face shrouded in a veil.ĮCHO (Êchô), an Oreade, who when Zeus was playing with the nymphs, used to keep Hera at a distance by incessantly talking to her. When the youth spurned her advances she wasted away, leaving nothing behind but an echoing voice. She was loved by the god Pan, and herself became enamoured of the boy Narkissos (Narcissus). The goddess Hera cursed her with just an echo for a voice as punishment for distracting her from the affairs of Zeus with her endless chatter. Echo ( ekhô) Nymph Echo, Athenian red-figure hydria C4th B.C., British MuseumĮKHO (Echo) was an Oreiad-nymph of Mount Kithairon (Cithaeron) in Boiotia.
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