OrpheusEurydice2.0093_Takamatsu

OrpheusEurydice2.0093_Takamatsu

OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
New York Times Magazine

Yasuo Takamatsu searches for his lost wife, Yuko, who perished in the 2011 tsunami. His underwater search is documented in an article by Janet Percy, "I Have No Choice but to Keep Searching for Her," New York Times Magazine, 6 August 2016. (click link above)

The plight of Mr Takamatsu manifests similarities to Orpheus' and its narratives verge on the material of reception studies. See MythMatters blogpost.

The photo at right is derived from NYT online, which captions it thus: Yasuo Takamatsu near the Takenoura port after a practice dive.CreditCreditAsako Narahashi for The New York Times

A diver with an orange hood and red-rimmed mask surfaces in calm water, holding a snorkel to their mouth

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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