Narcissus

Narcissus, according to a Greek fable, was the son of the river god Cephissus and of the nymph Liriope or Liricessa of Thespiae, in Bœotia. He was a youth of extraordinary beauty, of which he was excessively vain; and for this he was punished by Nemesis by being made to fall in love with himself on seeing the reflection of his own face in a fountain. He died of this love-sickness; and on the place where he died sprung up the flower which bears his name. The story of Narcissus, narrated by Ovid, is of comparatively late origin.