Echo and Narcissus for himself, echoing the manner in which Echo did earlier. A while later his body is gone, and in its place is a narcissus flower. The pale flower is still found near river banks so that it can be reflected in the water. Echo and Narcissus Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's "Metamorphoses", a Latin mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph Echo into the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who rejected sexuality and falls in love with his own reflection, appears to have been Ovid's invention. Ovid's version
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth production survives in Elliott's hands, and a small segment was seen in the 1985 Granada documentary series "Television", a history of the medium. In February 2007 an opera based on the play was premiered in De Munt in Brussels. The composer was Luc Brewaeys. The Man with the Flower in His Mouth The Man With the Flower in His Mouth ( ) is a 1922 play by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. It is particularly noteworthy for becoming, in 1930, the first piece of television drama ever to be produced in Britain, when a version was screened by the British