In this episode of Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) and Dan Smith (Bastille) take a long, slow look at Narcissus, who inspired Dan's song Seasons & Narcissus, which you can hear here: https://bastille.lnk.to/Seasons

They look into the different versions of the myth of Narcissus, and how and why it's changed over the years; they also look at the myth of Echo, who Dan did NOT write a song about. They also cover the history of narcissism, and why middle eights are brilliant.

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Muses: An Ampersand Podcast is presented by Dan Smith and Emma Nagouse, with research by Dr. Aimee Hinds Scott. It is produced by Emma Nagouse and Ed Morrish for Lead Mojo productions.

Cover photography by Bo Morgan, taken at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.

Cover design by Chris Barker.

Episode artwork by Harriet Bruce.

Recorded at Plosive.

Mixed by Miles Wheway.

Thanks to Dr. Melissa Gustin for arranging the location for the cover art; to Dr. Emma Rose Price-Goodfellow; and to Moira Mack and Charlie Barnes for their help with the jingle.

Sources:

• Ambroziak, Paige. “POUSSIN’S ECHO OF OVID.” WRECK 4.1, 2013
• Barrow, Rosemary. “Narcissus and Echo.” in A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology. Ed. Vanda Zajko. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2017
• Calimach, Andrew. Lovers’ Legends. New Rochelle: Haiduk Press, 2002
• Colquhoun, Matt. Narcissus in Bloom. London: Repeater Books, 2023
• Gotchold, Agnieszka. The Myth of Narcissus and Its Reception in Western Culture. Warsaw Bellerive-sur-Allier: Wydawnictwo DiG Édition La Rama, 2016
• Freud, Sigmund. On Narcissism, 1914
• Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 3.23
• Miguel, Jaime Segura San, ‘Mad Narcissists” 12 (n.d.)
• Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.339-510
• Pausanias Description of Greece 9.31.7-9
• Vinge, Louise. The Narcissus theme in Western European literature. Lund: Gleerups, 1967

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