Of all the mysteries of Ancient Greece, the Orphic Mysteries based on the myth of Orpheus are the most intriguing.

Eurydice runs away…but straight into the path of a snake who gives her a fatal bite. She is heading for the underworld. Part 2 Hermes persuades Orpheus not to lose heart. They set off for the ...

but violated the condition that he should not look at her until he left the underworld--and so he lost her. Back on earth, Orpheus was torn apart by women jealous of his love for Eurydice.

When Orpheus embarks on a journey to rescue Eurydice from the underworld, he encounters Hades and Persephone, the mythic king ...

When the myth about Eurydice is told it’s really the story of Orpheus: how he falls in love with her, how devasted he is when she gets bitten by a snake and dies, and how he goes to the underworld and ...

Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to ...

Part of the enduring appeal of the Orpheus ... of the Underworld (Wiltshire Smith again) is a sinister schoolboy on a hobby horse. Some niggles: in a play supposedly following Eurydice’s story ...

Hadestown is a modern, jazz-infused retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Set in the underworld, where love faces off against greed, it follows Orpheus’ journey to rescue his love ...

The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld has ... the December 4 transmission leading Aucoins evocative ...

In a haze of revelry and panic, she missteps and is plunged into the underworld. Stricken with grief, Orpheus plots to bring Eurydice back from the dead. The story has also been turned into a ...