0792OrpheusEurydice

0792OrpheusEurydice_Ricketts

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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

Charles Ricketts, “Orpheus and Eurydice,” c.1905-07, Tate Gallery, London, no. 3005.

Tate Gallery, The Tate Gallery Collections: British Painting. Modern Painting and Sculpture, (London: Tate Gallery, 1975): 195.

Fine Art Society, British Sculpture, 1850-1914, (London: Fine Art Society, 1968): no. 135.

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.