Greek mythology
Eurydice
The bride Orpheus almost led back from death
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Group
- Mortal
- Appears in
- Orpheus and Eurydice
Eurydice is the wife of the musician Orpheus, killed by a viper's bite on their wedding day. Her grieving husband descends into the Underworld and so moves Hades and Persephone with his song that they release her, on one condition: he must not look back until both reach the light. A step from the surface he turns, and she slips away into the dark forever.
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