Echo
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Orations
Nymph beloved by Pan, whose unattainability is the origin of the jesting myth Diogenes recounts.
And he said in jest that this practice was the invention of Pan, when, in love with Echo, he could not win her, but wandered in the mountains night and day;
Hymn 19 to Pan
Echo is a personified presence whose wailing accompanies the music on the mountain.
At that hour the clear-voiced nymphs are with him and move with nimble feet, singing by some spring of dark water, while Echo wails about the mountain-top, and the god on this side or on that of the choirs, or at times sidling into the midst, plies it nimbly with his feet.