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Egyptian tapestry roundel with Orpheus and Apollo, 5th–6th century CE. In Greek mythology, the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice (Greek: Ὀρφεύς, Εὐρυδίκη, romanized: Orpheus, Eurydikē) concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace for the beautiful Eurydice.
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been depicted in a number of works by artists, including Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and Corot. [13] More recently, the story has been depicted by Bracha Ettinger , whose series, Eurydice , was exhibited in the Pompidou Centre ( Face à l'Histoire , 1996); the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam ...
Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice likewise presents the story of Orpheus's descent to the underworld from Eurydice's perspective. Ruhl removes Orpheus from the center of the story by pairing their romantic love with the paternal love of Eurydice's dead father. [93] David Almond's 2014 novel A Song for Ella Grey was inspired by the myth of Orpheus and ...
Eurydice is the daughter of the leading actress in a second-rate acting troupe. The troupe is waiting in a train station. Orphée is a violinist at the station restaurant. Eurydice and Orphée meet and fall in love instantly. Eurydice rejects the advances of a young man named Matthew—who is her lover and a fellow member of the troupe.
Orpheus is the son of Calliope of the Muses who fell in love with Eurydice the moment he set eyes on her. His love for her was so strong that when she perished from a poisoned snake bite when being chased by the satyr Aristaeus (who is depicted as Pan's brother in this show), Orpheus travelled down to the Underworld to plead to Hades for her ...
Orpheus and Eurydice are due to be married. But when Eurydice's father, Endymion, takes auguries they forebode trouble. Aristaeus is unhappily in love with Eurydice and calls on the goddess Venus for aid. She tells him the marriage cannot be stopped but she will do her best to seduce Orpheus and Eurydice away from one another.
The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene is a poem by the Scottish Northern Renaissance poet Robert Henryson that adapts and develops the Greek myth which most famously appears in two classic Latin texts, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the Georgics of Virgil. Jacopo del Sellaio, Orpheus and Eurydice, c.1480
Eurydice invites him to her bed, and they make love. Orfeu, Mira, and Serafina are the principal members of a samba school, one of many parading during Carnival. Serafina decides to have Eurydice dress in her Queen of the Night costume so that she can spend more time with Chico. A veil conceals Eurydice's face; only Orfeu is told of the deception.