THE FLOWER MYTHS Flashcards
The first story of narcissus is told in an early
Homeric Hymn
it is written objectively, simply, without a touch of affectation
Hymn
it is thinking of his subject
Poet
is as always thinking of his audience, but he tells this story well
Ovid
this place is is not a rich and fertile country of wide meadows and fruitful fields where flowers seem at home. It is a land of rocky ways and stony hills and rugged mountains
Greece
it is a lovely bloom of glowing purple and silver
Narcissus
Zeus helps Hades to take Persephone away by alluring her of the Narcissus flowers in
the vale of Enna
Who is the fairest Nymph which is also the favorite of Artemis
Echo
who punished Echo, to never to use her tongue again except to repeat what was said to her
Hera
“You will always have the last word , but no power to speak first”
Hera’s cursed to Echo
Who punished Narcissus, that he will only fall in love with himself/ his own reflection
Nemesis (righteous anger )
it is a lily-shaped and of a deep purple; a splendid crimson
Hyacinth
he think he killed Hyacinth while they are playing discus throw. Hyacinth was struck in the forehead
Apollo
he blew upon the discus and made it strike Hyacinth
West Wind, Zephyr
among the three flowers, he is the most famous in the greek girls
Adonis
