Who was Narcissus?
- Written by: Marguerite Johnson, Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus, 1903.Wikimedia CommonsNarcissus is among the best-known figures from Greek mythology.
His beauty has lasted millennia: his name denotes the genus of plants of the amaryllis family, such as the daffodil and jonquil; his personality lends itself to the term “narcissism”, which describes a...