0792OrpheusEurydice_Duncan3

0792OrpheusEurydice_Duncan3

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. Modern Dance (23 Selections, including scenes with vocal soloist and chorus). First performed 1911.

Image Credit: Arnold Genthe, 1869-1942, photograph. Isadora Duncan Dancers. Photographed for Vanity Fair August 1920.

Duncan, Orpheus Eurydice

This stub slide needs more research. - CB

McDonagh 1976 p. 19

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
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