Elena Heran

PhD Candidate, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Arts & Culture

Narcissus and the drawbacks of being a hot teenage boy

The myth of Narcissus as told by the Roman poet Ovid isn’t so much about narcissism and self-discovery, as about what it is to transgress the norms of male sexuality

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