Orpheus And Eurydice
Opening Orpheus and Eurydice, an Ancient Greek tale of love, heartbreak, katabasis and revelation. Orpheus a Thracian bard and Eurydice a beautiful maiden. On their wedding day she fell into a pit of vipers and passed. Orpheus played such a mournful song that even the gods were moved and wept by it. Orpheus though wasn’t willing to give up Eurydice and so he set forth to the underworld to get back his wife. You see Orpheus wasn’t just a normal bard, oh no, Orpheus could do magic with his music; from simple animal charming to moving rock and rivers, Orpheus’s music had power . Orpheus wasn’t just a lowly mortal Orpheus was a son of a Thracian King and had even helped Jason on his adventure, his lyre could drown out even a Sirens song. “To Plouton …Your throne rests On a dark realm, The realm of distant, of untiring ...