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Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronounce /ˈɔrfiəs/ (OHR-fee-uhs) or /ˈɔrfjuːs/ (OHR'-fews) in English) is a figure from Greek mythology born in the Rhodope Mountains of Thrace (now partly in Bulgaria), king of the Thracian tribe of Cicones. Orpheus was called by Pindar "the father of songs". He was a son of the Thracian river god Oiagros and the Muse Calliope. His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, but he was known by the time of Ibycus (c.530 BC).

Trivia about orpheus

  • A New York City-based conductorless chamber orchestra is named for this mythic musician, Eurydice's mate
  • It's said that his singing & lyre-playing "drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek"
  • Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi's "The Fable Of" this man who went to hell & back for her
  • The earliest opera that survives, Peri's 1600 "Euridice" tells of Euridice & this husband
  • With his own enchanting music, he was able to save the Argonauts from the Sirens
  • Oops! He looked back at Eurydice as he led her out of the underworld & lost her forever
  • His lyre playing was so moving it brought the ghosts of Hades to tears
  • As Lot's wife left Sodom and was told not to look back, he left Hades and was told not to look back
  • Robertson Davies called the third book in his Cornish trilogy "The Lyre of" this mythological figure
  • Calliope, one of the Muses, was the mother of this masterful lyre player
  • After the Muse Calliope crossed her, Aphrodite caused the death of this musician, Calliope's son
  • This husband of Eurydice so offended a band of women that they tore him to pieces
  • A musician & a poet, he married Eurydice
  • Musician torn apart by the love-crazed women of Thrace
  • Heard here in a Gluck opera, this mythological character is lamenting the loss of his beloved
  • In an Offenbach work, this title character must venture to the underworld to deal with his dead wife, Eurydice
  • The fort features a monument to Francis Scott Key, who's seen as this mythical musical maestro
  • Niccolo Dell"abbate painted "The Death of Eurydice", the wife of this guy
  • In a painting by Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo I de Medici is portrayed as this poet & lyre player
  • Robertson Davies called the third book in his Cornish Trilogy "The Lyre of" this mythological figure

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