Narcissus

Narcissus may refer to:

Biology

• Narcissus (plant), a genus containing daffodils and others

People

• Narcissus (mythology), Greek mythological character
• Narcissus (wrestler) (2nd century), assassin of the Roman emperor Commodus
• Tiberius Claudius Narcissus (1st century), freedman and secretary to the Roman emperor Claudius
• Saint Narcissus (disambiguation), several saints

Film

• Narcissus (1983 film), a film by Norman McLaren
• Narcissus (2012 film), a Lithuanian film
• Narcissus (2015 film), a Tunisian film
• Pink Narcissus, a film by James Bidgood
• Narcissus, a 1956 film by Willard Maas
• Black Narcissus, a 1947 film by Powell and Pressburger
• Narcissus, an escape shuttle in the Aliens film series

Music

• Narcissus, an EP by the Danish band Kellermensch
• "Narcissus" (music), a piano piece by Ethelbert Nevin, recorded as a duet by Norman Wisdom and Joyce Grenfell
• Narcissus (band)
• Narcissus, an opera by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
• Écho et Narcisse, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• "Narcissus", a song by Alanis Morissette on the 2002 album Under Rug Swept
• "Narcissus", a 2019 single by Róisín Murphy later released on Róisín Machine

Literature

• Echo and Narcissus, a poem by Ovid
• Narcissus and Goldmund, a novel by Hermann Hesse
• The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', a novel by Joseph Conrad

Other uses

• Narcissus (Caravaggio), a c. 1597–1599 painting by Caravaggio
• Narcissus (Lemoyne), a 1728 painting by François Lemoyne
• HMS Narcissus, a name borne by six ships of the Royal Navy
• Operation Narcissus, a military operation
• Narcissus effect, a type of stray light contamination where thermal radiation from an infrared detector reflects back to itself from lens surfaces

See also

• Narcissa (disambiguation)
• Narcissu
• Narcissism (disambiguation)