 The poet Virgil, in his fifth "Eclogue", also wrote about a narcissus whose description corresponds with that of "Narcissus poeticus".In one version of the myth about the Greek hero Narcissus, he was punished by the Goddess of vengeance, Nemesis, who turned him into a Narcissus flower that historians associate with "Narcissus poeticus".The fragrant "Narcissus poeticus" has also been recognized as the flower that Persephone and her companions were gathering when Hades abducted her into the Underworld, according to Hellmut Baumann in "The Greek Plant World in Myth, Art, and Literature".