Flowers are considered very beautiful in Greece due to their scarcity in the rugged landscape. Several Greek myths explain the origins of particular flowers, usually arising from tragic stories of love, rejection and death. Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and died gazing at it, and the narcissus flower grew where he lay. Hyacinthus was accidentally killed by Apollo during a game, and the hyacinth flower sprang from his spilled blood. Adonis was fatally gored by a boar while hunting, and the anemone flower grew from his blood on the earth.

3. FLOWERS
•In Greece flowers are considered to be the most
beautiful.
•They are rarely found in Greece because Greece is
a place of rugged mountains and rocky hills.
•The flowers are scattered and few so that’s why
they are considered very beautiful when seen.
•Many mythology story tellers of the earliest times
told stories of flowers to explain how and why they
were created.

4. •Narcissus was a beautiful young man who was so beautiful
that all the girls who saw him fell in love with him.
•The only problem was that he would have none of them. He
would pass the most loveliest carelessly by, ignoring how hard
they tried to catch his attention
•Heart broken young women were nothing to him
•There was even the fairest nymph chasing after him, Echo
(who could only repeat what was said because Hera had put
her under that spell for being a lover of Zeus’s)but she wasn’t
even successful in catching his attention
•She left to live in caves to hide her sorrow and could never be
comforted from Narcissus’s rejection

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One day one of the maiden’s prayed a prayer
against Narcissus: “He who loves not others
loves himself”
The god Nemesis saw right to it that this would
happen and the moment Narcissus bent down
over a clear pool for a drink he fell in love with
his reflection.
Narcissus did not want to leave his reflection
and decided that the only way to free himself
was death
He pined away leaning perpetually over the
pool staring at his reflection
All the maidens who mourned his death found
a new kind of flower growing where his body
had lain and decided to call it Narcissus

7. •Hyacinth is a flower lily shaped and deep purple or
crimson
•This is what was made of the outcome of Hyacinthus’s
tragic death
•Hyacinthus and a close dear friend ,Apollo were playing
a friendly competitive game of discus throwing.
•Apollo accidently strucks Hyacinthus on the forehead
with the discuss and blood starts gushing from his wound.

8. •Apollo loved this young man for how youthful
and kind he was and was at shame for what
he had done. He held him in his arms until he
died.
•The place where his blood had stained the
grass had died but gotten green again and
bore some new beautiful flowers that were
named after him.
•There is another story that says Zephyr , the west wind, was
the direct cause of death.
•He had loved the boy a great deal too and gotten jealous
that Hyacinthus’s best friend was the god, Apollo.
•So when Apollo threw the discus it was the west wind who
directed it to hit Hyacinthus

10. •Out of all the flower myths this is the most famous
•Every year the Greek girls mourned for him and rejoiced
when his flower, the blood stained-red anemone, the wind
flower, was in its blooming season.
•Adonis from birth was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of Love,
and she decided that he should be hers.
•So she sent him to be taken care of by Persephone in the
underworld

11. •When she tried to get him back, Persephone had
fallen in love with him too and didn’t what to give
him up. So they got Zeus to make arrangements
for them and it was set that Adonis would spend
fall and winter time with Persephone and spring
and summer with Aphrodite.
•Aphrodite let Adonis do whatever he wanted so Adonis
always enjoyed chasing wild game through the forest dressed
as a huntress
•Aphrodite was always above him protecting him
•One day however when she was not there watching him he
decided to chase a boar.
•He flung his spear at him but only managed to injure it. It
then started chasing him, but Adonis couldn’t get away fast
enough.

12. •The boar rushed at him and gore him with its great tusks.
•Aphrodite heard her lover’s mourn and rushed to his aid,
but it was too late
•Dark blood flowing down his pale skin, life leaving his
eyes, she spokes to him while holding him in his eyes.
•Crimson flowers sprang up where each drop of his blood
had sunk into the earth