The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue
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It was the perfect wedding, the guests thought.The groom was Orpheus, the greatest of all poets and musicians.The bride Eurydice, a wood nymph.Anyone could tell the couple was truly and deeply in love.Suddenly, Eurydice stumbled, then fell to the ground.By the time Orpheus reached her side, she was dead,and the snake that had bitten her was slithering away through the grass.Following Eurydice’s funeral,Orpheus was overcome with a grief the human world could not contain,and so he decided he would journey to the land of the dead,a place from which no living creature had ever returned, to rescue his beloved.When Orpheus reached the gates of the underworld, he began to strum his lyre.The music was so beautiful that Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guards the dead,la...
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It was the perfect wedding, the guests thought.The groom was Orpheus, the greatest of all poets and musicians.The bride Eurydice, a wood nymph.Anyone could tell the couple was truly and deeply in love.Suddenly, Eurydice stumbled, then fell to the ground.By the time Orpheus reached her side, she was dead,and the snake that had bitten her was slithering away through the grass.Following Eurydice’s funeral,Orpheus was overcome with a grief the human world could not contain,and so he decided he would journey to the land of the dead,a place from which no living creature had ever returned, to rescue his beloved.When Orpheus reached the gates of the underworld, he began to strum his lyre.The music was so beautiful that Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guards the dead,la...
