CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Asceticism, Pacifism, Apotheosis
17 Sep 2016
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Thracian poet and musician first poet (mythic character, and orpheus at the same time was a real person?) First musician, first one to teach humans music; played the lyre: charms mortals and animals with his song, always portrayed as being surrounded by animals, power to use music to draw animals to/from. Mother muse: calliope in his blood, taught by goddesses of art. Father oeagrus thracean: thrace = northern greece, amazons from here, anoter version: apollo lyre, in both versions, apollo teaches him to play the lyre. Has a son/pupil: musaeus (means male muse: passed on musical traditions of orpheus. Depicted like amazons are in attire thracean clothing, not typical greek clothing. Consistent image greeks have no problems in myths with major mythic characters aren"t necessarily from s. greece. Like demeter, most famous story deals with loss of loved one. Death of eurydice: katabasis ritual of descent down.
