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Orpheus's mother taught him to make verses for singing. He is also said to have studied in Egypt. [54] Orpheus is said to have established the worship of Hecate in Aegina. [55] In Laconia Orpheus is said to have brought the worship of Demeter Chthonia [56] and that of the Κόρες Σωτείρας (Kóres Sōteíras; 'Saviour Maidens').
Black Orpheus won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, [9] the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, [24] and the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film, and was nominated for the 1961 BAFTA Award for Best Film. In the last case, Brazil was credited together with France and Italy.
Per Parry, Negro History Week started during a time when Black history was being "misrepresented and demoralized" by white scholars who promoted ideas like the Lost Cause or the Plantation Myth ...
Orpheus and Eurydice, a sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1893) Orpheus Searching Eurydice in the Underworld , a painting by the Antwerp school [5] The Kiss , a painting by Gustave Klimt (1907) (Not explicitly Orpheus and Eurydice, but one interpretation of The Kiss is that it depicts their story) [ citation needed ]
On one hand we have Orpheus gazing towards the underworld, which serves to dissolve the connection between Orpheus and his desire, Eurydice. On the other hand, Orpheus’ role in the upper world is to use his creativity and artistic talent to transform his desires into a recreated form. Lacan uses the topography of the myth to construct his ...
Black History Month is an annually observed commemorative month originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. [4] It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora, initially lasting a week before becoming a month-long observation since 1970. [5]
When Orpheus descends and confronts Hades and Persephone, he sings a song so that they will grant his wish to bring Eurydice back from the dead. After this song is sung, Ovid shows how moving it was by noting that Sisyphus, emotionally affected for just a moment, stops his eternal task and sits on his rock, the Latin wording being inque tuo ...
Orfeu da Conceição (Orpheus of the Conception) [a] is a stage play with music in three acts by Vinicius de Moraes and music by Antônio Carlos Jobim that premiered in 1956 in Rio de Janeiro. The play became the basis for the films Orfeu Negro ( Black Orpheus , 1959) and Orfeu (1999), and for the musicals Orfeu (Brazil, 2010) [ 1 ] and Black ...