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noun - (Greek mythology) a great musician
A legendary Thracian poet and musician whose music had the power to move even inanimate objects and who almost succeeded in rescuing his wife Eurydice from Hades.
ORPHEUS - Orpheus (; Greek: , classical pronunciation: /or.peús/) is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. Some ancient ...
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| As Lot's wife left Sodom and was told not to look back, he left Hades and was told not to look back |
| The fort features a monument to Francis Scott Key, who's seen as this mythical musical maestro |
| Oops! He looked back at Eurydice as he led her out of the underworld & lost her forever |
| Robertson Davies called the third book in his Cornish trilogy "The Lyre of" this mythological figure |
| A musician & a poet, he married Eurydice |
| In a painting by Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo I de Medici is portrayed as this poet & lyre player |
| Maria Tallchief danced the role of Eurydice in the premiere of Balanchine's ballet about this musician |
| If you describe a spellbinding singer as "Orphie", you're comparing him to this mythical musician |
| Musician torn apart by the love-crazed women of Thrace |
| In 1923 German poet Rainer Maria Rilke published a collection of sonnets to this hero whose music charmed Hades |
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| (Greek mythology) a great musician when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed |
| in Greek mythology ( ancient stories), a poet who sang and played the lyre ( a musical instrument with a U-shaped frame and strings): |
| A poet who could entrance wild beasts with the beauty of his singing and lyre playing. He went to the underworld after the death of his wife Eurydice and secured her release from the dead, but lost her because he failed to obey the condition that he must not look back at her until they had reached the world of the living. |
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| Orpheus (; Greek: , classical pronunciation: /or.peús/) is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. Some ancient Greek sources note Orpheus' Thracian origins. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music. As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting.For the Greeks, Orpheus was a founder and prophet of the so-called "Orphic" mysteries. He was credited with the composition of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of which only two have survived. Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. |