CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Theogony, Cronus, Greco-Roman Mysteries
3 Apr 2016
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Important hero who has powers in the underworld he"s a hero though he"s someimes presented as a god. Roman mosaic with orpheus wearing a phrygian cap, surrounded by the wild animals which are calmed by his music. The bard orpheus charms the wild beasts with his music. The creatures include an eagle, lion, bull, iger, bear, boar, leopard and goat. Athenian red-igure krater by the orpheus painter, ca. 440 bc: the myth, birth: from one of the muses (usu. Born from one of the muses calliope responsible for music played on the lyre. Or the son of apollo a great musician: descent to the underworld, the aborive rescue of eurydice, signiicance: power of his song; knowledge of the mysteries. Went to the underworld because he was about to be married to eurydice. Going for her last walk in the meadow. She was bit by a poisonous snake and died.
