Narcissus (mythology) is the story of Echo and Narcissus. One day Narcissus was walking in the woods when Echo, an Oread (mountain nymph) saw him, fell deeply in love, and followed him. Narcissus sensed he was being followed and shouted "Who's there?". Echo repeated "Who's there?" She eventually revealed her identity and attempted to embrace him. He stepped away and told her to leave him alone. She was heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in lonely glens until nothing but an echo sound remained of her. Nemesis (as an aspect of Aphrodite), the goddess of revenge, noticed this behaviour after
Salmacis as well as the water nymph Salmacis. The inscription was written sometime during the Hellenistic period. Francis Beaumont, a poet and playwright, wrote a poem "Salmacis and Hermaphroditus" based on Ovid's work. The poem was published anonymously in London in 1602. Salmacis In Greek mythology, Salmacis () was an atypical naiad who rejected the ways of the virginal Greek goddess Artemis in favour of vanity and idleness. Her attempted rape of Hermaphroditus places her as the only nymph rapist in the Greek mythological canon (though see also Dercetis). In Ovid's Metamorphoses, she becomes one with Hermaphroditus, and Hermaphroditus curses the