This week's episode contains jealous gods, flirtatious behavior, reflective surfaces, and a lot of repetition.

Also, repetition.

Get it?

Gritting out the greatest stories in history, we're told in Greek mythology.

Gritting out gods and heroes amazing feats, listen and you'll see it's freaking out.

This is the story of echo and narcissists.

And unlike a lot of famous Greek myths, it's important to understand that this is not a hero story.

And it's not a love story.

Well, not really anyway, but it is one of the most well-known stories in all of Greek mythology.

In English, we say Narcissus, but the proper Greek pronunciation is actually Narcissus.

Right, that brings up a good point.

Before we start, let's talk about words.

Exactly.

A lot of the words we use in the English language originally came from ancient Greek or Latin.

For example, echo.

Sound waves, like your voice, can actually bounce off smooth, hard objects in the same way a ball bounces off the ground.

Many times, it bounces right back at the sender, making it sound like someone is repeating what was said.

Exactly.

And one of the things we'll learn from this story is how the word echo came to be.

So let's start there.

She was kind and loving, and she had a beautiful voice, and she loved to sing, so she was basically the classic cartoon princess version of a wood nymph.

Singing in the forest, laughing with her animal friends, you get the picture.

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