![]() Her being her Dryad has much more to do with Orpheus, whose music enchants humans, gods, animals and plants alike, than with herself. The "problem", if we want to call it that, with the character of Eurydice is that exists, acts and dies according to someone else's story. Not long after, Orpheus will also die - electrocuted by Zeus or dismembered, depending on the version. ![]() The gods then agree to return Eurydice, but on one condition: going back to the light, Orpheus will never have to look back at his wife who follows him.ĭo I need to tell you how it ends? Obviously the man turns around, losing her again. ![]() Orpheus then descends into the Underworld, managing to enchant with his lyre Cerberus, Charon and the same Hades and Persephone. It is a great love, enlivened by his songs, so sweet as to appease even the wild beasts and to make the trees bend to listen to him.Įverything is fine until Eurydice is bitten by a viper e muore - because in Greek mythology it often goes like this. Orpheus, the cantor, is married to Eurydice, the Dryad. ![]() But, for those who missed it, let's summarize it for a moment before going to see it in detail. That of Orpheus and Euridice is a Greek myth well known, which you will surely have heard of at least once - especially if you have recently played Hades. Orpheus leading Eurydice out of the Underworld, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1861) The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: what is it about? ![]()
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