orpheus, master of music, the civilizing art. orpheus drowned out the singing of the sirens....
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Orpheus, master of music, the civilizing art
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Orpheus drowned out the singing of the Sirens. However, one of the Argonauts, Butes, was particularly sharp-eared, heard the Sirens’ songs, and plunged to his doom.
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Orpheus’ wife (whom he has just married) is bit by a serpent and dies.
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Going down to the murky, gloomy underworld, Orpheus dares to ask the god of the dead that he return him his wife.
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The gods of the Underworld allow Orpheus to lead his wife back into the world of the living
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but upon one condition… that he not look back
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which—predictably—he cannot resist doing.
Orpheus, like all heroes before him, fails at bringing the dead back to life
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Going back to Thrace, his native country, Orpheus finds consolation in playing music alone
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The exceptionally gifted Orpheus is presented as a Thracian
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The female followers of Dionysos, the Bacchants, assault Orpheus and kill him.
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While Orpheus the mortal dies, his head lives on to perpetuate his unearthly music
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Sisyphos performing his vain task for all eternity