Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The choreographer Christopher Williams’s queer reimagining of the Narcissus myth is brilliantly conceived and costumed, though a bit stodgy. By ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Caravaggio/Public domain. I have long been fascinated by the myth of Echo and Narcissus, and may finally have cracked its meaning. First, let’s remind ourselves of the ...

Caravaggio, Narcissus, circa 1600. Wikimedia Commons. Ovid reveals Echo is merely one in a list of thwarted admirers, including a young man who prays for divine retribution against Narcissus ...

Detail from Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse (1903) Source: Walker Art Gallery/Public Domain As portrayed by the first-century BCE Roman poet Ovid, Narcissus is a handsome lad pursued ...