This rewriting business is almost as old a tale as those of Orpheus and Eurydice, Echo and Narcissus, and the doomed men and women of the grisly House of Atreus.

Narcissistic personality disorder derives its name from the Greek myth of Narcissus, of which there are several versions. In Ovid's version, which is the most commonly related, the nymph Echo ...

But when we talk about the Narcissus myth and narcissism, there’s a character ― and an accompanying psychological term ― we often forget about: Echo and echoism.

Long ago a beautiful boy was born to a nymph known as Liriope. At his birth, an oracle announced his fate. “He will live for a long time, forever perhaps,” the oracle told Liriope, &#82… ...

In 2012, one of these boys has written a play likening his youth to the Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus. When the other boy shows up out of the blue to see the work, ...