religion, The Gaze of Orpheus is derived from the antiquarian Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the story of Orpheus, the poet descends to the underworld...
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Strabo and Plutarch note Orpheus's Thracian origins. Orpheus was called the ruler of the Bistonian Pieria, a region inhabited by the Thracian tribes Bistones...
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Orfeo ed Euridice (redirect from Orpheus & Euridyka)
Orphée et Eurydice; English: Orpheus and Eurydice) is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by...
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Maurice Blanchot (redirect from Thomas the Obscure)
Right to Death" (in The Work of Fire and The Gaze of Orpheus), The Space of Literature, The Infinite Conversation, and The Writing of the Disaster. Blanchot...
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Eurydice (redirect from Cultural depictions of Eurydice)
mythology and the Auloniad wife of Orpheus, whom Orpheus tried to bring back from the dead with his enchanting music. Several meanings for the name Eurydice...
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Tomatoes Black Orpheus at the TCM Movie Database Culture Vulture review of Black Orpheus Black Orpheus an essay by David Ehrenstein at the Criterion Collection...
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Lydia Davis (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Its Origins to the Present. Translator Lydia Davis. Pantheon Press. Maurice Blanchot (1981). P. Adams Sitney (ed.). The Gaze of Orpheus, and Other Literary...
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The Krewe of Orpheus is a New Orleans Mardi Gras super krewe and social organization. Orpheus is a musically themed krewe taking its name from Orpheus...
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Euridice (Caccini) (category Operas about Orpheus)
version appeared. The opera follows the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice quite closely, except that it has a happy ending since Orpheus succeeds in rescuing...
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Lúthien and Beren (redirect from Quest of the Silmaril)
that Tolkien used in constructing the story. It is based principally on the classical tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in the underworld, supplemented by multiple...
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Euridice BA 2037 (category Films about Orpheus)
mythology, the film centers on Eurydice as she waits for her lover Orpheus to save her from Hades. While waiting for her rescue from the underworld,...
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Narcissus (mythology) (category Children of Potamoi)
Polaroid Stories, a contemporary rewrite of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, features Narcissus as a character. In the play he is portrayed as a self obsessed...
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Rainer Maria Rilke (redirect from The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God)
(Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), a semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen...
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mythology, the Cattle of Helios (Greek: Ἠελίοιο βόες, Ēelíoio bóes), also called the Oxen of the Sun, are cattle pastured on the island of Thrinacia,...
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Medusa (redirect from Medusa the Gorgon)
as a monstrous creature with snakes in her hair whose gaze turns men to stone. Through the lens of theology, film, art, and feminist literature, my students...
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Greek hero cult (section Nature of hero cult)
Athens Orion at Boeotia Orpheus Pandora the first woman, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind Penthesilea Peleus – he fathered the famous hero Achilles...
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Macaria (category Children of Hades)
one, blessedness') is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. Although they are not said to be the same and are given different...
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Golden apple (redirect from Golden Apples of the Hesperides)
Făt-Frumos) retrieving the golden apples hidden or stolen by a monstrous antagonist. Gold apples also appear on the Silver Branch of the Otherworld in Irish...
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Hippomenes (category Deeds of Zeus)
a son of the Arcadian Amphidamas or of King Megareus of Onchestus and the husband of Atalanta. He was known to have been one of the disciples of Chiron...
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the house by visions of Héloïse in a wedding dress. One evening, they read the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and debate the true reason why Orpheus turns...
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Iseult (redirect from Iseult of the White Hands)
*Adsiltia, "she who is gazed upon." The Irish princess, Iseult of Ireland is the daughter of King Anguish of Ireland and Queen Iseult the Elder. She is a main...
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Jason (redirect from Jason and the Golden Fleece)
Boreads, Zetes & Calaïs; the Dioscuri, Castor & Polydeuces; Euphemus; Heracles; Idas; Idmon, the seer; Lynceus; Meleager; Orpheus; Peleus; Philoctetes; Telamon;...
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Byzas (category Children of Poseidon)
Býzas) was the legendary founder of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion), the city later known as Constantinople and then Istanbul. The legendary...
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Asteria (mythology) (category Mythology of Phocis)
daughter of Helios and Clymene or Ceto, one of the Heliades. She married the river god Hydaspes (the modern Jhelum River) and became mother of Deriades...
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Jupiter Disguised as Diana Seducing Callisto (category Paintings of Jupiter (mythology))
female passion. Part of a pair with Orpheus and Eurydice (the same size and format), they were both probably first owned by the French lawyer Charles...
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gaze upon. Saint Cecilia, 2nd century virgin martyr and patron saint of musicians and church music Cecilia of Normandy (died 1126), thought to be the...
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ECM Records discography (redirect from List of ECM Records albums)
A discography of albums released by ECM. Distributor catalogue numbers are not provided here. Records, E. C. M. "ECM Records". ECM Records. Retrieved 2021-10-07...
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Daedalus (redirect from The Household EP)
seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix, and possibly also the father of Iapyx. Among his most...
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updated the collection. Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which...
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Helen Lovatt (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
(2007) Statius, Orpheus, and the post-Augustan vates. Arethusa, 40(2), 145–163. (2006) The female gaze in Flavian epic: looking out from the walls in Valerius...
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