Look up Narcissus or narcissus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Narcissus may refer to: Narcissus (plant), a genus containing daffodils and others Narcissus...
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Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring flowering perennial plants of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. Various common names including daffodil...
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In Greek mythology, Narcissus (/nɑːrˈsɪsəs/; Ancient Greek: Νάρκισσος, romanized: Nárkissos) was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia (alternatively Mimas...
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Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring...
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Narcissus (born 2nd century A.D.) was a Roman athlete, likely a wrestler, from the 2nd century AD. He assassinated the Roman emperor Commodus in 192 AD...
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Echo and Narcissus is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the myth of the mountain...
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The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children...
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Saint Narcissus may refer to: Narcissus of Athens, apostle Narcissus, Argeus, and Marcellinus (died 320), martyrs Narcissus of Jerusalem (99–216), bishop...
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Metamorphosis of Narcissus is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, from 1937. Originally titled Métamorphose de Narcisse...
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Echo (mythology) (section The Lay of Narcissus)
her only able to speak the last words spoken to her. So when Echo met Narcissus and fell in love with him, she was unable to tell him how she felt and...
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Narcissus and Goldmund (German: Narziß und Goldmund, pronounced [naʁˈtsɪs ʔʊnt ˈɡɔltmʊnt]), also published in English as Death and the Lover, is a novel...
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Narcissus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, painted circa 1597–1599. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome...
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Black Narcissus is a 1947 film by Powell and Pressburger. Black Narcissus may also refer to: Black Narcissus, or Narcisse noir, a perfume introduced in...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Narcissus after the Narcissus of mythology, or after the Narcissi flowers. HMS Narcissus (1781) was a 20-gun post ship launched...
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Black Narcissus is the third novel by English writer Rumer Godden and was published in 1939. It was adapted into a 1947 film Black Narcissus. A group of...
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Pink Narcissus is a 1971 American arthouse drama film directed by James Bidgood and starring (unknowns) Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks and stage actor Charles...
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Narcissus 'Thalia', also sometimes known as the orchid Narcissus, is a cultivar of daffodil, which was bred by M. van Waveren and Sons of Hillegom in 1916...
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Narcissus poeticus, the poet's daffodil, poet's narcissus, nargis, pheasant's eye, findern flower or pinkster lily, was one of the first daffodils to...
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Narcissus jonquilla, commonly known as jonquil or rush daffodil, is a bulbous flowering plant, a species of the genus Narcissus (daffodil) that is native...
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Black Narcissus is a drama television serial, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. The series features one of the final performances of Diana Rigg...
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Agrias narcissus is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South America. A. n. narcissus (Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Amapá...
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Narcissus of Athens (Greek: Νάρκισσος ό Άθηναίος) is numbered among the Seventy Disciples. Along with the Apostles Urban of Macedonia, Stachys, Ampliatus...
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Narcissus tazetta (paperwhite, bunch-flowered narcissus, bunch-flowered daffodil, Chinese sacred lily, cream narcissus, joss flower, polyanthus narcissus)...
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Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 oil painting by John William Waterhouse. It illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses. John William...
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Eligma narcissus, the ailanthus defoliator, is a moth in the family Nolidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1775. It is found in...
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Narcissus and Goldmund (German: Narziss and Goldmund) is a 2020 German drama film loosely based on the eponymous novel by Hermann Hesse. Sabin Tambrea...
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Tiberius Claudius Narcissus (died c. 54 AD) was one of the freedmen who formed the core of the imperial court under the Roman emperor Claudius. He is...
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with Narcissus, a handsome hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia, who had already spurned all his other suitors, according to the version of Narcissus's myth...
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Hypochrysops narcissus, the Narcissus jewel, is a member of the family Lycaenidae of butterflies. Australian Biological Resources Study (1 February 2016)...
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flower's significance primarily in Greek mythology. Historically the narcissus has appeared in written and visual arts since antiquity, being found in...
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