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Encyclopedia > Narcissus

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Other uses of the name include: Echo and Narcissus (1903) by John William Waterhouse. ... // Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Species several Narcissus is the Latin name for a group of hardy, mostly spring-flowering, bulbs. ... Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Tiberius Claudius Narcissus ( 1st century AD) was one of the freedmen who formed the core of the civil service under the Roman emperor Claudius. ... A freedman is a former slave who has been manumitted or emancipated during the American Civil War. ... Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... For other uses, see Claudius (disambiguation). ... Narcissus was a Roman athlete and wrestler from the 2nd century AD. He was employed by emperor Commodus as his wrestling partner and personal trainer in order to train him for his appearances in the Colosseum as a gladiator. ... Commodus Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus) (August 31, 161–December 31, 192) was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192. ... Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Narcissus after the Narcissus of mythology, or after the Narcissi flowers. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services being the oldest of its three branches. ... Narcissus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, circa 1597-1599. ... Caravaggio painted by Ottavio Leoni around 1621. ... Narcissus is an open source JavaScript engine. ... A JavaScript engine (also known as JavaScript interpreter or JavaScript implementation) is an interpreter that interpretes JavaScript source code and executes the script accordingly. ... A baby grand piano, with the lid up. ... Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin November 25, 1862 - February 17, 1901 American pianist and composer. ... Sydney Opera House: one of the worlds most recognizable opera houses and landmarks Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content or primary entertainment is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the... Gottfried Henrich Stölzel was born at January 31, 1690 in Grünstädtl and died November 27, 1749 in Gotha. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Viola Meynell (1885 – 1956) was an English writer; her married name was Dallyn. ... An escape pod is a capsule or craft used to escape an emergency, usually only big enough for one person. ... The science fiction/horror film Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, has become quite influential and has spawned several sequels and imitators. ...


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Narcissus, Greek Mythology Link. (488 words)
Narcissus, who was loved by Apollo and is counted among the most handsome young men, was, according to some, the son of the river god Cephisus and the nymph Liriope, or according to others, the son of Endymion and Selene (Moon).
When later Narcissus, who was as beautiful as Dionysus 2 or Apollo, discovered his image in a pool, he fell in love with himself, and not being able to find consolation, he died of sorrow by the same pool.
For it was while she, attracted by the sweet scent of the narcissus, gathered flowers over a meadow, that the earth opened and Hades sprang out upon her with his immortal horses, and took her with him to be the queen of the Underworld.
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