The women who conceive, bear and protect the sons of gods, mortal and divine: Semele, Leto and Maia, Sarah, Hagar and Rebekah, Isis with the infant Horus, and the daughters of men in Genesis 6.
Narcissus comes to the water thirsty. A reading of Ovid’s myth through Echo, Conon’s rejected lover Ameinias, the twin sister Pausanias records, Hegel on beauty, and the flower that keeps his name.
