Orpheus

Name story:

Perhaps related to Greek ὄρφνη (orphne) meaning "the darkness of night". Different etymologies for Orpheus’ name have been proposed since antiquity. An old folk etymology, recorded by the Roman mythographer Fulgentius, derives the name from the Greek oraio-phōnē, meaning “best voice.”
Modern scholars have suggested that the name “Orpheus” is related to the Indo-European *orbho- or *h₃órbʰos, meaning “orphan” or, more metaphorically, “bereft, abandoned.” The -eus at the end of the name is a suffix attested in some Greek names as early as the Bronze Age and indicates something like “one who has to do with.” Thus, Orpheus’ name roughly translates to “he who has something to do with being orphaned/bereft”—likely a reflection of the loss of his beloved Eurydice.

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Orpheus’ most important attribute was his musical prowess, which far transcended normal human abilities. His music was said to have had power over all things. Orpheus was regarded as a great musical innovator, the inventor of epic, lyric, and other forms of poetry and song. He was also sometimes credited as the inventor of other important arts, including medicine, writing, and agriculture.
Finally, Orpheus was also a religious and prophetic figure closely associated with Dionysus, the god of wine and madness. He was the mythological inventor of initiation rites in general. More specifically, however, he was the founder of the mysterious Orphic Mysteries, and many ancient religious poems (such as the Orphic Hymns and the Orphic Argonautica) were attributed to him.
Orpheus was a popular figure in ancient art, where he was usually represented as a boyish young man with a lyre, often surrounded by the wild animals and forces of nature that his music was supposedly able to tame.
According to Virgil and Ovid (and a handful of others), Orpheus and Eurydice fell in love and were married. But on their wedding day, Eurydice was bitten by a venomous snake and died (at the time, she was either fleeing from an unwanted suitor or dancing with the nymphs). Understandably heartbroken, Orpheus resolved to bring Eurydice back from the Underworld. Armed only with his lyre, he was one of the few mortals in Greek mythology to ever pass through the Underworld alive; the shocking beauty of his music stilled even Cerberus, the terrifying three-headed guard dog of Hades.
Orpheus’ journey and his music so moved Hades and Persephone, the king and queen of the Underworld, that they permitted Orpheus to take Eurydice back with him to the land of the living—but only if Orpheus did not turn around while leading her up. As Orpheus was leaving the Underworld, he began to worry that Hades had deceived him. To reassure himself, he peeked behind his shoulder, only to see Eurydice snatched away forever because he had disobeyed the gods of the Underworld
There is no standard version of how Orpheus died. In most traditions, he was unable to stop mourning the loss of his wife. Thus, he wandered the world playing sad melodies on his lyre until he was eventually torn apart by a band of Thracian women or Dionysian maenads.
But various sources had different ideas about why Orpheus was killed. In one version, Orpheus had offended Dionysus somehow, so Dionysus sent his maenad worshippers to murder him.
In other sources, it was the female sex as a whole that Orpheus had offended. When he lost Eurydice, Orpheus shunned women completely (in favor of homosexual relationships). Because of this, he was killed by a band of angry women.

Orpheus

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