What is Orpheus in the Underworld?
First poster is right, and yet he is wrong. – Orpheus is the greatest musician, the son of Morpheus, the god of sleep and dreams, and Calliope, the Muse of stories. – Orpheus loses his beloved wife, the nymph Eurydike, when she is bitten by a viper. – He goes to the underworld, to beg the king (Hades) and queen (Persephone) of the land of the dead. All the monsters and demons of the underworld are moved by Orpheus’ wonderful music. – The king and queen are also moved by his story and music, and allow Eurydike to follow him out of the underworld, but on one condition: he must never look back at her before they are back in the land of the living. – Because he does not hear her steps behind him, Orpheus looks back at the top of the stairway that leads to the land of the dead, and she is lost again. – Orpheus is not allowed back in, and now a broken man, leads a sad life until he encounters a group of Maenadae, the furious female followers of Dionysus, who, in their madness, tear him to pi
