Narcissus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Narcissus may mean either:

• Narcissus in Greek mythology
• the Narcissus flower and plant
• Narcissus, freedman and secretary to the Roman emperor Claudius
• Narcissus, murderer of the Roman emperor Commodus
• HMS Narcissus, a name borne by six ships of the Royal Navy
• Narcissus, a painting by Caravaggio
• Narcissus, a JavaScript engine
• Narcissus, a piano piece by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin
• Narcissus, an opera by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
• Narcissus, a 1916 novel by Viola Meynell
• Narcissus, a lifeboat appearing in the Aliens series of films.
• Narcissus, an electronic music composer from Uruguay
• Narcissus, a 1983 short film by Norman McLaren
• Narcissus, a song by Alanis Morissette from her third studio album Under Rug Swept

Other uses of the name include:

• Black Narcissus, a 1939 novel by Rumer Godden, and its 1947 film adaptation by Powell and Pressburger
• Echo and Narcissus, a painting by John William Waterhouse
• Echo and Narcissus, a poem by Ovid
• Narcissa Malfoy, character in the Harry Potter series of books
• Narcissus and Goldmund, a 1930 novel by Hermann Hesse
• The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', an 1897 novel by Joseph Conrad
• Operation Narcissus, a raid on Sicily by the SAS during World War II
• Pink Narcissus, a 1971 film by James Bidgood
• Narcissu, a visual novel.
• Black Narcissus, one of the Metarex from the Sonic the Hedgehog anime Sonic X.
• Black Narcissus, a jazz standard by Joe Henderson