Eurydice

Character · slug: eurydice

Also: Agriope, or Amphithea

Stories (10)

Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
Orpheus and Eurydice: The Descent
Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean Greek notice (+ Plato); fuller narrative is largely Roman (Vergil/Ovid)—labeled
Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
Opheltes (Archemorus): Death at Nemea and the Nemean Games
Heroes — Theban / Nemean aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
Haemon’s Suicide (Sophocles, Antigone)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
Eurydice of Thebes: Suicide after Haemon (Sophocles)
Heroes — Theban / Antigone aftermath · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone*
Aristaeus, the Bees, and Eurydice (Vergil-Labeled)
Local and lesser — pastoral / bee aetiology; Orphic hinge · Roman primary narrative (Vergil, *Georgics* 4) of a Greek hero (Aristaeus); Greek notices of Aristaeus as pastoral culture-hero noted
Orpheus’s Head and Lyre Reach Lesbos
Local and lesser — Orphic aftermath / Lesbian cult aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian / Hellenistic (head floats singing; Lesbian oracle; lyre catasterized or dedicated)

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Eurydice

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