0792OrpheusEurydice_Duncan1

0792OrpheusEurydice_Duncan1

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

Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927, choreography. Orpheus Mourning the Death of Eurydice. Modern Dance in 3 Parts. First performed 1902, Kunstler Haus, Munich.

Image Credit: Arnold Genthe, 1869-1942, photograph. Isadora Duncan Group in Grecian Costume. Photographed for Vanity Fair August 1920.

This stub slide needs more research. - CB

Blair 1986, pp. 63, 118, 182/McDonagh 1976 p. 18

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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