OrpheusDeath1.0048

OrpheusDeath1.0048_Lévy

Ovid Met. 10.1-85
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2

Emile Lévy, "The Death of Orpheus," painting, 1866, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, no. R.F. 103

Maenads approach Orpheus with variant anger and attraction as they merge in riotous revelry. Cf. Lovis Corinth's "Bacchanal" 1896 (click here).

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Hobson 1980 no. 135, pl. 105 / Wood 1983 pp. 236ff - ill. / also Kestner 1989 p. 299 pl. 5-41.

Hobson no. 137

Ibid, no. 136

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