Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (2)

• Death of Orpheus: The Maenads
  Heroes — Orpheus · Apollodorean / Pausanian (torn by Thracian/Macedonian women or Maenads; head and lyre)
• 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)

Characters in shared stories

• Amphitrite
• Artemis
• Dionysus
• Eurydice
• Lesbians
• Muses
• Nurses
• Orpheus