Eurydice

Family: mortals · Role: wife of Orpheus · First appears: Fable 83

Life events

• Eurydice is killed by a serpent’s sting while strolling through the grass.(Fable83 · 📍 regions of the Ciconians)
  • “the newmade bride, while she was strolling along the grass, attended by a train of Naiads, was killed, having received the sting of a serpent on her ancle.”
• Pluto and Persephone grant Orpheus’s request and summon Eurydice from the shades.(Fable83)
  • With: Orpheus Persephone Pluto
  • “nor could the royal consort, nor he who rules the infernal regions, endure to deny him his request; and they called for Eurydice.”
• Orpheus receives Eurydice on the condition that he must not look back before leaving the underworld.(Fable83 · 📍 Avernian vallies)
  • With: Orpheus
  • “The Rhodopeïan hero receives her, and, at the same time, {this} condition, that he turn not back his eyes until he has passed the Avernian vallies, or else that the grant will be revoked.”
• Orpheus looks back, causing Eurydice to die again and return permanently to the underworld.(Fable83)
  • With: Orpheus
  • “He, enamoured, fearing lest she should flag, and impatient to behold her, turned his eyes; and immediately she sank back again.”
• Orpheus descends beneath the earth and finds Eurydice in the fields of the blessed.(Fable93)
  • With: Orpheus
  • “His ghost descends under the earth, and he recognizes all the spots which he has formerly seen; and seeking Eurydice through the fields of the blessed, he finds her”

Fable 83

• married with Orpheus “Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus, while sporting in the fields, with other Nymphs, is bitten by a serpent, which causes her death.”
• with Pluto (Pluto consented to Eurydice's return subject to a condition.) “Pluto and the Fates consent to her return, on condition that Orpheus shall not look on her till he is out of their dominions.”

Fable 93

• with Orpheus (They reunite and embrace in the afterlife.) “His ghost descends under the earth, and he recognizes all the spots which he has formerly seen; and seeking Eurydice through the fields of the blessed, he finds her, and enfolds her in his eager arms.”
• courtship with Orpheus (The passage depicts Orpheus and Eurydice reunited as an intimate couple.) “His ghost descends under the earth, and he recognizes all the spots which he has formerly seen; and seeking Eurydice through the fields of the blessed, he finds her, and enfolds her in his eager arms.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.