Orpheus

Orpheus Europe
Legendary Greek poet and hero. The son of Apollo and the muse Calliope, Orpheus was a great musician, his playing moved not only animals and plants but even rocks and the elements. When his wife Eurydice died of a snake bite, Orpheus descended to the underworld, where his lyre‘drew iron tears’from Hades, god of death. His wife was delivered up to him, but according to one legend he lost her again. His grief for Eurydice led him to despise other women, who in revenge tore him to pieces under the excitement of their Dionysiac orgies. The doctrines of Orphism, a Greek ‘mystery’ cult, were derived from poems attributed to Orpheus.