Orpheus and Eurydice

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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• Power Point by
• Jacey L.
• Sharnese W.
• Jacob D.
• Carrie O. 

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Orpheus

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• greatest of all human musicians
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• played the lyre
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• had been married Eurydice 
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• mother is Calliope
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• father is either Oeagrus of Thrace or greek god
  Apollo
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                                      http//www.hip
  ark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/mythology/orpheus.htmlC

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Eurydice

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• married to Orpheus
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• forest nymph
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•  died from snake bite
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•  decended to Hades

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Apollo

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• son of Zeus and Leto
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•  God of music
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•  maybe father of Orpheus
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• leader of the muses
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Hades

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• brother of Zeus
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•  lord of the underworld
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• god of wealth
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• wife is Persephone

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Maenads

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• followers of the gods of the vines
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• woman sacred to dionysus
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•  able to perform miracles
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• killed Orpheus for disputed reasons

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Persephone

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• Goddess of the underworld
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• Goddess of the harvest
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• daughter of Zeus and Demeter
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•  in underworld 1/3 of the year

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THE STORY

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Metaphysical Function

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• Orpheus goes to the underworld.
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•      -  how people relate to the unknown and
  teaches
•         how the underworld is concidered real
  enough
•         that orpheus could go to it.
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• Orpheus was the son of Apollo, the god of music.
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•      -  humans relationship to the gods and
  explains
•         how humans and Gods can interact directly
  as
•         well as spiritually.

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Cosmological Function

• A viper stung Eurydice and she died
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•     - humans relationship to nature (man vs.
  nature).
•       Explains how human life can be determined
  by nature.
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• When Orpheus would play his lyre the rocks, trees
  and animals would come closer to him
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•     -it explains humans relationship with the
  physical universe (things we can touch, see,
  smell, hear, taste).

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Sociological Function

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• Orpheus marries Eurydice.
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•     -it explains humans relationship to each
  other. how they should interact in
  groups/relationships.
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•  A band of Maenads killed Orpheus tearing him
  limb from limb
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•     -humans reactions to each other that
  can result in
•      the loss of one's life (man vs. man).

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Psychological Function

• Orpheus's grief was overwhelming when Eurydice
  died
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•     -explains how society expects people to deal
  with
•      problems and everyday occurrances.
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• Orpheus needed to look back to be sure that
  Eurydice was behind him
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•     -its shows how humans are curious and give in
  to
•      temptations. (man vs. self)

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Allusions

• Christoph Willibald Gluck- "Orphee et
  Eurydice" (music)
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•  Orpheus (film)
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• Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, 1801
  (literature)
• "...Did Thracian shepherd by the grave
• Of Orpheus hear a sweeter melody..."
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• Orpheus and Euridice
•  by George Frederick Watts  (art)
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Sources

• http//www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/eurydice/eurydi
  cemyth.html
• http//www.carnaval.com/bulgaria/orpheus_and_euryd
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• http//www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/wp-conten
  t/uploads/2008/12/orpheus.jpg
• http//www.jrank.org/cultures/pages/6025/Orpheus.h
  tml
• http//encyclopedia.farlex.com/Euridice
• http//www.aphoenixreborn.com/Categories/Myth/phot
  os/Euridice.jpg
• http//www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html
•  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo
•  http//www.pantheon.org/areas/gallery/mythology/e
  urope/greek/apollo3.gif
•  http//www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Hades/had
  es.html
•  http//www.glogster.com/media/2/6/18/17/6181763.j
  pg
•  http//www.maicar.com/GML/MAENADS.html
• http//spells-witchcraft.org/images/Maenads.jpg
• http//www.pantheon.org/articles/p/persephone.html
  
• http//www.1greeneye.net/panthea/uploaded_images/p
  ersephone-blog-729600.jpg
• http//myths.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_story_of
  _orpheus_and_eurydice
• http//www.paleothea.com/Myths/Orpheus.html
• http//www.angelfire.com/realm/shades/demons/orphe
  us.htm
• http//www.victorianweb.org/painting/watts/paintin
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