On Valentine’s day, archeologists display a beautiful find of a fresco from Ancient Pompeii, the old Roman city destroyed in a massive earthquake in AD 79. The fresco is very well-preserved of the Ancient Greek myth of Narcissus.

in Ovid’s telling of the story and the most well known, Narcissus was a very handsome Greek young man who had many suitors the nymph Echo among them- but he scorned all of his suitors. The Goddess Nemesis, as an aspect of Aphrodite the Goddess of Love, in revenge, lures Narcissus to a pool where he sees his own reflection in the water and falls madly in love with himself. He eventually realizes it’s his own reflection and withers away from his own unrequited passion until only a gold and white flower remains. The beautifully scented Narcissus. There are other versions of the story and more recent ones state that Narcissus’s suitors…