Narcissus fell in love with himself and died soon afterwards. At the age of 15, his mother had taken the handsome youth to see Tiresias, the seer.

In Ovid's poem Metamorphosis, which he composed in Rome in the 4th century BCE, the blind seer said something strange: the boy will have a long life "...if he never knows himself."

Then Narcissus grew to be a man, and both women and men fell in love with him. But he ignored them all. Even the usual beautifu