0792OrpheusEurydice

0792OrpheusEurydice_Chavannes

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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

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, “Orpheus,” 1883, Private coll., Paris.

National Gallery of Canada, Puvis de Chavannes, 1824-1898, (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1977): no. 163.

Karl Kilinski, Classical Myth in Western Art: Ancient through Modern. (Dallas: Meadows Museum and Gallery, Southern Methodist University, 1985): p. 86.

Contributions by Nathaniel

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.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.