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Echo

Ἠχώ

Roman: Echo

Overview

Mountain nymph whose voice survives as an echo in the best-known later tradition.

Nymphs

Voice, mountains

Her familiar story is preserved especially in later classical literature.

Unknown or primordial.

No children recorded.

Beyond Antiquity

Echo still appears in the modern world through language, science, medicine, astronomy or culture.

Today: The word for a reflected or repeated sound.

Associated with Echo, the nymph condemned to repeat the words of others.