0775Orpheus_Shakespeare

Ovid Met. 10.1-85
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616. (Orpheus's lyre evoked in) Two Gentlemen of Verona. 3.2.77-80. Comedy, c. 1594. London: Jaggard, 1623 (First Folio).

"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."

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The Riverside Shakespeare. G. Blakemore Evans, general ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1974.

Charles Segal. Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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