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2. Hadestown - Wikipedia

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   Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.

3. Katabasis - Wikipedia

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   The katabasis of Orpheus in book 10 is the last major inclusion of the theme by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Orpheus is distraught by the death of his wife, Eurydice . He enters the Underworld through the Spartan Gates and visits Dis and Proserpina to beg for the return of his bride.

4. Orpheus (film) - Wikipedia

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   Orpheus (French: Orphée ⓘ; also the title used in the UK) is a 1950 French romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais. It is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy , alongside The Blood of a Poet (1930) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).

5. Aornum - Wikipedia

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   Orpheus's life. Aornum (Ancient Greek: Ἄορνον) was an oracle in Ancient Greece, located in Thesprotia in a cave called Charonium (Χαρώνειον ἄντρον or χάσμα) which gave forth poisonous vapours. [1] The name of the cave, "Charon's Cave", reflects the belief that it was an entrance for Hades, the Greek underworld. [2]

6. Eurydice (Anouilh play) - Wikipedia

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   The story is set in the 1930s, among a troupe of travelling performers. It combines skepticism about romance in general and the intensity of the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice with an other-worldly mysticism. The result is a heavily ironic modern retelling of the classical Orpheus myth.

7. Clash of the Gods (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   This episode tells how Hades came to this position, why he was so feared, and what the Greeks thought awaited them after death. It also contains the myths of Persephone, Sisyphus, and Orpheus. In the Christian New Testament, which was written in Greek, Jesus defeats "Hades" (per the original Greek text).

8. How to Read the 'Percy Jackson' Books in Order, if the ... - AOL

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   With a Percy Jackson TV series airing on Disney+, kids who want to follow along with the books can read the Percy Jackson books in order, plus two more series. ... The House of Hades (2013) In ...

9. Metamorphoses (play) - Wikipedia

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   Distraught, Orpheus travels to the Underworld to negotiate with Hades and the gods to free Eurydice. After Orpheus sings a depressing song, Hades, the god of the Underworld, agrees to let Eurydice return with Orpheus as long as Eurydice follows Orpheus from behind, and he does not look back at her. If he does, she must stay in the Underworld.