Orpheus+and+Eurydice

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**SUMMARY**
Orpheus, the son of the poetry muse Calliope, lived a simple and careless life, until he met Eurydice, a dryad. They fell in love and got married. The rustic god also fell in love with Eurydice. She was so scared that she ran for her life because she did not like him. She ran so carelessly that she stumbled upon a deadly venomous snake named Ralph. She had a fierce showdown with the snake but the serpent prevailed and bit the poor defensless women in the ankle. Her condition rapidly deteriorated until she fell apart and died. Orpheus hears of the tragic death of his new bride. He travels to the underworld with his lyre and he charms Cerberus( three-headed monster dog of Hades who guards the underworld.) He played a sad song to Hades and Persophone to convince them to release Eurydice. They warned him " Eurydice would follow him into the light of the world, and once she entered the sunlight she would be changed from a shade back to a women." But if Orpheus doubted, if he looked back to see her, she would be lost to him forever. Orpheus was overjoyed at this news and began his journey back to life. On his way back he listened for Eurydice's footsteps behind him, but she was still a shade and did not make a sound. Thinking Hades had decieved him he lost fiath and looked back, only to see Eurydice but then her shade was whisked back down to the underworld. Lost to him forever. Orpheus tried to return back to the underworld to try and demand her return but one cannot enter the same way twice and all other ways were sealed off to him. There are different stories of his demise. One is of him playing his music so mournfully that the songs called for death and the animals surronded him and tore him away weeping as they did. Another tells of Maenads riping him to shreads after he swore he would never love another, and they threw his head into the Hebrus, and then they floated to the Mediterranean shore. Then the winds and waves carried them on to the Lesbos shore. And there the inhabitants burried his head and built a shrine in his honour. His lyre was carried to the heavens and the muses gathered the fragments of his body and buried them at Leibethra below Mount Olympus. Then his soul returned to the underworld and was renuited with Eurydice.

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MODERN REFERENCE
-A modern version of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, premiered on Broadway in 1957 as //Orpheus Descending//. -Orpheus appears as the main heroes first usable Person in the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 using his music as attacks and his lyre as a weapon. Orpheus is killed from having his body ripped apart and his head being removed first. Also, Orpheus' appearance is that of a mechanical body with an organic head placed on top of it and a heavy scarf covering the neck, as though his head was all that remained (like in the myth). -In the GameBoy game //Battle of Olympus//, Orpheus is the main character, travelling around ancient Greece on a quest to save his wife - who was bitten by a poisonous snake - from the clutches of the evil god Hades. However, the Orpheus in this game is married to a certain "Helena" instead of Eurydice, and he only uses his musical instruments on a handful of special occasions, preferring swords and clubs to destroy just about every monster from Greek mythology apart from Medusa and Chaeron. -"Orpheus" is one of the achievements in //Halo 3//; namely completing the mission Cortana with 15000 points. This is most likely a reference to Orpheus rescuing Eurydice from death.