Greek mythology
Orpheus
The poet whose song could move stones and the dead
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Parents
- Calliope
- Group
- Heroes · Music · Love · Argonauts
- Appears in
- Orpheus and Eurydice · Jason and Medea
- Objects
- Lyre of Orpheus · The Argo
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Orpheus is the greatest musician of myth, whose song charms wild beasts, halts rivers, and softens even stone. When his bride Eurydice dies, he descends into the underworld and so moves Hades and Persephone with his music that they grant her release, on the one condition that he not look back. A step from the light he turns, loses her forever, and wanders grief-stricken until he is torn apart by the Maenads.
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- Who is Orpheus?
- Orpheus is the greatest musician of myth, whose song charms wild beasts, halts rivers, and softens even stone. When his bride Eurydice dies, he descends into the underworld and so moves Hades and Persephone with his music that they grant her release, on the one condition that he not look back.
- Which mythology does Orpheus belong to?
- Orpheus belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Orpheus appear in?
- Orpheus appears in Orpheus and Eurydice, Jason and Medea, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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