Echo (mythology) the themes of courtly love emphasised in the "Lay" and moves further away from Ovid’s initial account. The curse of Athena is absent entirely, and the tale is overtly moralised. Unlike in the "Lay", however, this moral message is aimed solely at women; this despite the fact that the offending behaviour is perpetrated by Narcissus not Echo. Echo (mythology) In Greek mythology, Echo (; , "Ēkhō", "echo", from ἦχος ("ēchos"), "sound") was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from
Greek love Greek conception of love in 1818 during his first summer in Italy, concurrently with his translation of Plato's "Symposium". Shelley was the first major English writer to treat Platonic homosexuality, although neither work was published during his lifetime. His translation of the "Symposium" did not appear in complete form until 1910. Shelley asserts that Greek love arose from the circumstances of Greek households, in which women were not educated and not treated as equals, and thus not suitable objects of ideal love. Although Shelley recognizes the homosexual nature of the love relationships between males in ancient Greece, he argues that