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Orpheus

A musician whose playing stopped rivers to listen. He was allowed to lead his wife back out of the underworld on a single condition, and broke it within sight of daylight.

Orpheus
Hermes, guide to the underworld, grips Eurydice's wrist to lead her back to Hades as she reaches back to touch Orpheus one last time — the instant of their final farewell after his forbidden backward glance. Ancient Roman marble relief, as reproduced in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888.

Their myth

1 myth · 1 place

  1. 1 Orpheus and Eurydice Cape Tainaron

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