the tale of echo and narcissus Echo and Narcissus is a story from Ovid's book of poetry, Metamorphoses , about a beautiful boy named Narcissus and Echo the mountain nymph, or Oread , who fell in love with him. in the other hand, meet Zeus. Zeus has cheated Hera, her wife with other women and he loved doing it. Zeus had given Echo the task of entertaining his wife Hera with stories, in order that he might have time to slip away and philander around with other women. "Echo, you will tell stories to my wife. Distract her so she wont notice me cheating with other women," Zeus' voice thunders. Echo felt shocked of such request, "What if i dont want to ?" Zeus looks at the innocent nymph, starting to be impatient. "You will obey, because i am the king of all gods. Do as i say, or else." Echo hated the fact that she have to do this, but there is no other way. Hera noticed something was up (she was known for her jealous and vengeful na