OrpheusEurydice2.0097_Guttierez

OrpheusEurydice2.0097_Guttierez

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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

Guttierez, Jorge R., director. 2014. The Book of Life. Animated motion picture. Produced by Guillermo Del Toro.

Del Toro, the producer, stated in an interview that the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice informed the principal love story. The observation raises interesting questions, since Del Toro is not credited witBookoh the screenplay nor with direction of the film. Does the producer's claim to a work's meaning "count" as acknowledgement for an adaptation? The film seems more suitable as a reception — not an adaptation — of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.

EmpireOnLine interview with Del Toro.

Nalip.org interview with Del Toro.

Keven Murphy contributed to this slide.

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, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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