CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Maenad
3 Feb 2018
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Eurydice dies by stepping on a snake, soul goes to hades. Orpheus is a wonderful artist, so he goes to hades to convince hades & persephone to let eurydice come back to the upper world. He plays them a song on his lyre, and they agree (with one condition, one his way back, he can"t look at eurydice) Apollo taught orpheus to play the lyre. Eurydice was killed by a snake bite. Orpheus is said to have been killed by maenads (women) May have committed suicide out of grief for his lost love. Aphrodite made all the women of thrace fall in love with him, so much that they tore him limb from limb https://osu. instructure. com/courses/35379/files/folder/readings?preview=6867016. Styx = river that separates the dead from the living. Orpheus was the first of the thracians to act gayly.
