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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

Neil Gaiman, "Orpheus Underground," BBCRadio4, September 2015. (click image at right) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06cw171

Interviews with Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Carroll, Russel Hoban (reading from Medusa Frequency), Peter Blegvad ("Leviathan"), Hannah Catherine Jones. Audio from Cocteau's Orphée plays in the background.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06cw171

Gaiman explores the myth from various angles.

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.