0799aOrpheusEurydice_Bastien-Lepage

0799aOrpheusEurydice_Bastien-Lepage

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

Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848-1884, "Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt with statuette of Orpheus", 1879, Collection of Ann and George Getty, on loan to the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (seen Jan 2016.) L.12.1.1

The famous stage actress Sarah Bernhardt was the subject of many artists' works.

explanatory

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 forThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 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.