- Narcissus & Echo

Son of the nymph Liriope and of the sacred river Kiphissos, Narcissus was punished by Nemesis and then fell in love with his reflection in a pool and pined away, becoming the flower that bears his name. After his death, his full love pursued him in the underworld, near the Styx in which he constantly contemplates himself.

Echo, daughter of the Air and the Earth, a lovely nymph fell in love with Narcissus but lacked the power of speech and could only repeat the last syllables of what she heard (punishment made by Zeus’s wife, Juno). Cruelly spurned by Narcissus, she pined away until only her voice remained.