Orpheus.

     Some time after his loss of Eurydice, Orpheus was killed in Thrace. He was torn limb from limb, either by madwomen who were jealous of his love for Eurydice or by maenads (bacchantes) who felt that he had dishonored the god Dionysus. All nature mourned as Orpheus’s limbs were scattered in the attack. His severed head, supported by his lyre, floated down the river Hebrus; it was said that as they drifted they made a mournful harmony. According to some versions of the legend, his head reached the island of Lesbos, where it was buried by Apollo. In other versions, Orpheus’s mother and her sister Muses buried the pieces of his body in either Thrace or Pieria, near Mount Olympus, and placed his lyre in the night sky as a constellation. Dionysus punished his bloodthirsty followers by twisting their feet into roots of oak trees.