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Orpheus definition

Or·pheus (ôr′fē əs, -fyo̵̅o̅s′)

noun

Gr. Myth. a poet-musician with magic musical powers who descends to the underworld and tries to lead his wife, Eurydice, back from the dead but fails because he breaks the injunction not to look back at her until they reach the upper world

Etymology: L < Gr

Related Forms:

  • Orphean Or′·phean (-fē ən) adjective

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Orpheaus is hero who had a gift of singing and playing the lute. He soon had such greif when his wife Eurydice died from a snake bite.He traveled to the underworld to get her. He pleasured Hades and his wife and they let her go on one conditionP:if he wouldn't look back at her until he was in sunlight. He soon broke the rule and she went back to underworld.

Posted by Rose 24 days ago.

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