Eurydice (wife of Orpheus)

Also known as: Eurydice · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.3

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

Life events

• Eurydice died, and Orpheus failed to bring her back from Hades.(Apollodorus, Library 1.3 · 📍 Hades)
  • With: Orpheus 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.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.3

• married with Orpheus “And when his wife Eurydice died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up,”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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