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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Its Origins to the Present. Translator Lydia Davis. Pantheon Press. Maurice Blanchot (1981). P. Adams Sitney (ed.). The Gaze of Orpheus, and Other Literary...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

(Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), a semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen...

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...

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...

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...

Athens Orion at Boeotia Orpheus Pandora the first woman, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind Penthesilea Peleus – he fathered the famous hero Achilles...

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...

*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...

Boreads, Zetes & Calaïs; the Dioscuri, Castor & Polydeuces; Euphemus; Heracles; Idas; Idmon, the seer; Lynceus; Meleager; Orpheus; Peleus; Philoctetes; Telamon;...

Býzas) was the legendary founder of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion), the city later known as Constantinople and then Istanbul. The legendary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. His mother was named either Astydameia, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, or Laonome, daughter of Guneus...