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OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus, Death of"

Gaiman, Neil, Bryan Talbot and Mark Buckingham. 1991. The Sandman: Orpheus Sandman Special, no. 1. DC Comics. Page 46

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Gaiman's graphic ... and deeply disturbing images of zombie-esque maenads takes the gruesome scene to new levels of darkness. Compare, for instance, Gaiman's to the seductiveness of Emile Lévy's maenads administering Orpheus' death.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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