Wisdom Written

 The characters of Narcissus and Echo are found in the book titled "Metamorphoses"  which is authored by the famous Roman poet Ovid. The story of Narcissus and Echo is constructed in Book III of Metamorphoses. Echo was a beautiful river nymph who lived amidst the beautiful woods. Echo had the habit of chattering ceaselessly about different topics for long. However, this very habit of her later proved to be a curse.  Jupiter, the God of Gods often visited the riverside where he enjoyed his time with the beautiful river nymphs, far away from his court and his wife Juno. His wife was well aware of her husbands philandering personality and hence   one day when he was visiting the river nymphs, Juno followed him to catch him red-handed. When Echo learnt that Juno had seen the nymphs lying with Jupiter, she tried to engage Juno with her endless flow of talks. She kept prattling continuously to Juno until the nymphs could flee from the spot. Juno, being furious with Ec...