Orpheus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Orpheus)

Life events

Eurydice died, and Orpheus failed to bring her back from Hades.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 Hades)
- With: Eurydice Hades
- “And when his wife Eurydice died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up, and he persuaded Pluto to send her up. The god promised to do so, if on the way Orpheus would not turn round until he should be come to his own house. But he disobeyed and turning round beheld his wife; so she turned back.”
Orpheus was torn apart by the Maenads and buried in Pieria.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 Pieria)
- “And having been torn in pieces by the Maenads he is buried in Pieria.”

parent: Calliope “and another son, Orpheus, who practised minstrelsy and by his songs moved stones and trees.”
parent: Oeagrus “Now Calliope bore to Oeagrus or, nominally, to Apollo, a son Linus, whom Hercules slew; and another son, Orpheus, who practised minstrelsy and by his songs moved stones and trees.”
married with Eurydice “And when his wife Eurydice died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up,”
with Hades (interaction) “and he persuaded Pluto to send her up.”
parent: Apollo “Now Calliope bore to Oeagrus or, nominally, to Apollo, a son Linus, whom Hercules slew; and another son, Orpheus”
with Dionysus (interaction) “Orpheus also invented the mysteries of Dionysus”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.