0791OrpheusEurydice

0791OrpheusEurydice_Delacroix

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OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Eugène Delacroix, "Spring: Orpheus and Eurydice, 1856 - 1863, unfinished, Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo.

Part of a seasons cycle: Summer: Diana & Actaeon, Autumn: Bacchus and Ariadne, Winter: Juno and Aeolus.

A classical painting depicts Pluto abducting Proserpine, with Ceres and nymphs witnessing in distress amidst a dark landscape

ML 8th edition, color plate 17 note citation of Poussin's "Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice" 0785OrpheusEurydice_Poussin

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, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.