1 / 8

Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice. Ms. Ballard. Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus. The greatest mortal musician Travelled with the Argonauts Son of a muse and a Thracian prince No one and nothing could resist his music. On the Argo.

liam
Download Presentation

Orpheus and Eurydice

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Orpheus and Eurydice Ms. Ballard Orpheus and Eurydice

  2. Orpheus • The greatest mortal musician • Travelled with the Argonauts • Son of a muse and a Thracian prince • No one and nothing could resist his music

  3. On the Argo Orpheus would play his lyre to motivate the oarsmen when they were tired. He also calmed men eager to fight and saved the whole crew from the threat of the Sirens.

  4. Directly after the wedding of Orpheus and Eurydice, the bride walked into a meadow with her bridesmaids. A viper bit her and she died. Orpheus declared: “I will charm Demeter’s daughter, I will charm the Lord of the Dead, Moving their hearts with my melody, I will bear her away from Hades.” He took the trip to Hades, stilling the masses with his music.

  5. Orpheus drew iron tears from Pluto who granted his request on one condition: Orpheus would not look back at her until they had reached the upper world.

  6. Eurydice’s Return • As the two were leaving, Orpheus was too impatient • He looked back too soon • Eurydice returned to Hades as a ghost

  7. The End of Orpheus Orpheus then wandered through Thrace with his lyre as his only comfort. A band of Maenads came upon him and tore him limb from limb. They flung his severed head into a river where it drifted until some muses found it and buried it. They gathered his limbs and buried them in a tomb at the foot of Mount Olympus where the nightingales sing more sweetly than anywhere else. Thus, Orpheus rejoined his bride, Eurydice.

  8. Bibliography • http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Orpheus.html • http://www.salat.qc.ca/role15a.html. • Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

More Related