Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Echo.
The gallery
Echo and Narcissus
John William Waterhouse, 1903
Waterhouse pairs the fading nymph with the boy at the spring — Echo's last embrace refused, her body already dissolving into the repeating voice Ovid describes. Juno's punishment and Narcissus' scorn fixed her among the most famous unrequited loves of the Metamorphoses shelf.
In play
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Echo
English echo names the repeated sound after the nymph who could only answer — Ovid's curse turned into the ordinary word for a voice that comes back.
VIDEO GAME · 2024READ MORE ↗
Hades II
Supergiant Games
Supergiant's sequel brings Echo into Melinoë's underworld war — the answering nymph as a living remnant of Narcissus' story.