Orpheus and Eurydice (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Mythic
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Genres: Long fiction, Mythological literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Music or musicians, Obsession, Death or dying, Gods or goddesses, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Underworld or Hades
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Underworld, Hades, Thrace, ancient
Places Discussed
*Thrace (thrays). Supposed birthplace of Orpheus, now a region of eastern Greece bordering Turkey, where the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice begins. In ancient times, Thrace’s peoples were renowned as being among the most musically accomplished in the Greek world.
Ismarus (is-mahr-as). Village on the southern coast of Thrace and home of the Cicones, a savage Thracian tribe whose women are believed to have attacked Orpheus and dismembered him. At Zone, near this village, mountain oaks grow in an unusual formation after dancing to Orpheus’s...
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