First: She was not a Greek Goddess, she was a nymph. She was a skilled speaker, clever, quick, and convincing. Zeus used her to distract Hera while he had affairs and she often talked Zeus out of tricky situations. When Hera discovered what was going on she cursed Echo to be able only to speak words that others had spoken.
She retired to a forrest and when Narcissus, a handsome young mortal came walking through, she fell in love with him. Unfortunately she could not talk to him to tell him how she felt. Eventually he saw his own reflection in the water and was so entranced by his own beauty that he could not stop looking at himself and eventually turned into the Narcissus flower. Echo was still in love with him and was so upset that she wasted away until all that was left was her voice, which took refuge in caves and canyons.
Her story is an explanation for the echo heard in such places.
She isn't a Goddess. EKHO (or Echo) was an Oreiad nymph of Mount Kithairon in Boiotia.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 35. 10 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.): "To the right of the sanctuary of Khthonia [i.e. Demeter of the Earth, in the town of Hermione, Argos] is a portico, called by the natives the Portico of Ekho. It is such that if a man speaks it reverberates at least three times."
In Greek mythology, Echo (Greek ???) grew to become into an Oread (a mountain nymph) that liked her very own voice. Zeus enjoyed being with perfect nymphs and visited them on earth many times. ultimately, Zeus's spouse, Hera, grew to strengthen into suspicious, and got here to Earth in an attempt seize Zeus with the nymphs. Echo needed to save her nymph pals, so she talked to Hera continuously with a view to distract her and permit time for Zeus and the nymphs to pass away. besides the indisputable fact that, Hera ultimately interrupted Echo and went into the sector the place Zeus and the nymphs have been. while she observed the sector grew to become into empty, Hera found out what Echo had achieved and punished her.
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First: She was not a Greek Goddess, she was a nymph. She was a skilled speaker, clever, quick, and convincing. Zeus used her to distract Hera while he had affairs and she often talked Zeus out of tricky situations. When Hera discovered what was going on she cursed Echo to be able only to speak words that others had spoken.
She retired to a forrest and when Narcissus, a handsome young mortal came walking through, she fell in love with him. Unfortunately she could not talk to him to tell him how she felt. Eventually he saw his own reflection in the water and was so entranced by his own beauty that he could not stop looking at himself and eventually turned into the Narcissus flower. Echo was still in love with him and was so upset that she wasted away until all that was left was her voice, which took refuge in caves and canyons.
Her story is an explanation for the echo heard in such places.
She isn't a Goddess. EKHO (or Echo) was an Oreiad nymph of Mount Kithairon in Boiotia.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 35. 10 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.): "To the right of the sanctuary of Khthonia [i.e. Demeter of the Earth, in the town of Hermione, Argos] is a portico, called by the natives the Portico of Ekho. It is such that if a man speaks it reverberates at least three times."
In Greek mythology, Echo (Greek ???) grew to become into an Oread (a mountain nymph) that liked her very own voice. Zeus enjoyed being with perfect nymphs and visited them on earth many times. ultimately, Zeus's spouse, Hera, grew to strengthen into suspicious, and got here to Earth in an attempt seize Zeus with the nymphs. Echo needed to save her nymph pals, so she talked to Hera continuously with a view to distract her and permit time for Zeus and the nymphs to pass away. besides the indisputable fact that, Hera ultimately interrupted Echo and went into the sector the place Zeus and the nymphs have been. while she observed the sector grew to become into empty, Hera found out what Echo had achieved and punished her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(mythology)