0793OrpheusEurydice

0793OrpheusEurydice_Manship1

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

Paul Manship, Orpheus and Eurydice depicted, with inscription "To the ultimate do we pursue the ideal," rimming medalion; obverse shows bronze portrait of Barry Faulkner. 1915.

Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship (New York: Macmillan, 1957), item no. 63

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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