Before Virgil, Orpheus Never Looked Back
Description: Before Virgil, no surviving text has Orpheus look back at Eurydice. Four centuries earlier, Athens believed his song could bring her back from the dead.
Five versions of Orpheus, oldest first: from a stone carving at Delphi (c. 560 BC) through Euripi ... Read more
Five versions of Orpheus, oldest first: from a stone carving at Delphi (c. 560 BC) through Euripi ... Read more




