#Orpheus and the Underworld

[madrone33]

Re: Jorge's most recent venture into the Underworld to look for Tiresias

(EDIT: art is from wolfythewitch and doing-some-crime)

#funny #memes #my posts #jorge rivera herrans #odysseus #orpheus #discord chat #epic the underworld saga #epic the musical

[epicthemusicalstuff]

Orpheus and Odysseus looking at each other as they venture through the underworld for different reasons

They both are doing this for their wives and to get them back/get back to them though so-

#The real reason Orpheus looked back was because he was confused by Odysseus and his crew #Epic the musical #hadestown #orpheus #odysseus #doubt comes in #epic the underworld saga

[lpa6zn]

I had seen a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice, but looking back, I don't laugh so much anymore

#orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice #hadestown #hades god of the underworld #tragedy #humor #greek myth memes #mythology #greek mytology #ancient greece #underworld #roman mythology #greco roman #percy jackson #the song of achilles #lore olympus

[mirabel-on-a-bicycle]

#orpheus eurydice imagery anyone??!? ANYONE?!!?!? #*gnaws at tabletops* im fine I'm finee im fine I'm #wilmon is a retelling. the snake is august. the snake bite is wille's lie. #the underworld is being driven into hiding. and this time orpheus succeeds. #OR SO I HOPE #young royals #young royals season 3 #wilmon #hozier #web weaving

[anthyies]

stephcass week day 6: au | orpheus and eurydice

#stephcassweek2023 #stephcass #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #dc #Batman #esha.txt #mycreations #Ummmm u ever think abt cass hallucinating steph leading her out of death twice. Bc I sure do. #idk if orpheus and eurydice is what this is as much as it is a ‘leading out of the underworld’ and a ‘i listened to hadestown while drawing #this’

[blood-orange-juice]

Have you noticed how Aventurine has all the attributes of a proper epic hero?

Special Circumstances Of Birth, for example. If you look at world mythology, the hero is usually a descendant of a god or blessed by a god, and their birth is accompanied by some rare natural phenomena.

A tragic event forcing him to leave his home and shaping his goals.

An exceptional talent that comes naturally to him and separates him from other mortals.

The way he wins allies through skill and cunning. One of the best moments of 2.1 is when you realise IPC colleagues haven't thrown him to the wolves, they are rolling along with his insane plan. They trust him.

(this whole story he is, in fact, surrounded by allies and helped by them)

There's probably something else but I forgot.

Not usually a trait of an epic hero (usually required for a modern one though) but there's an ideal he strives to achieve. I loved his reason for joining the IPC.

Then there is that whole descent to the underworld thing. I'll be surprised if we don't see him again. And this is where it gets interesting.

I could brush this off as a hero's journey trope but, considering the illusory nature of Penacony, maybe he's more of an orphic hero than an epic one. He's also fragile and tragic in a very orphic way, unlike a proper hero.

Orphics believed in a cycle of reincarnation that could be escaped through their rites. The world was seen as a place of suffering and mortal goals as irrelevant.

Characters of Orphic myths do not return triumphantly from the land of the dead to smite those who wronged them. Their deities lose and are forever changed but get to move on in other forms (Persephone, Zagreus), their heroes acquire little apart from knowledge.

These are stories of surrender, acceptance, and transcendence and if any power is gained in the process it's through discovering or establishing different rules for the world and the characters themselves.

(oh, and probable ethymology for Orpheus' name is that it is derived from a hypothetical PIE root *h₃órbʰos — 'orphan, servant, slave'. now where else have I seen these words...)

It's so unlike the Hero's Journey structure described by Campbell and much more popular in modern media, where a hero gains a solution to the problem that pushed them to another world.

So I wonder in which form will Aventurine return. A hero who will set things right or a new genius loci of Penacony. Or an eschatological deity, perhaps.

Or maybe he's Orpheus himself and he'll come back empty-handed.

#hsr spoilers #penacony spoilers #aventurine #hsr #guys #he's not jesus #he's orpheus #this little peacock charmed everyone with his song #or rather annoyed #the important part is that it worked #and maybe he'll find his sister in the underworld #he won't bring her back of course #this is not how the story goes #but maybe he'll see her #I wonder if he'll become an emanator #but I'd prefer if he doesn't

[mournfulroses]

Louis Simpson, from Gods & Mortals: Modern Poems on Classics; "Orpheus in the Underworld,"

#lit #louis simpson #poetry #orpheus in the underworld #fragments #selections #writings #quotes #excerpts #p

[illustratus]

Orpheus in the Underworld by Nils Asplund

#orpheus #underworld #art #nils asplund #mythological #mythology #greek mythology #waterfall #violins #violin #europe #european #ancient greece #ancient greek #musical instruments #waterfalls

[tylermileslockett]

Chthonic Descent (#4 in my Orpheus and Eurydice series)

The Roman poet Virgil, in his poem “Georgics”, gives a lush description of Orpheus descent into Hades;

“…entering the grove gloomy with black horror, he approached the Manes (dead spirits), and the tremendous king, and the hearts that know not how to relent at human prayers. But the thin shades being stirred up by his song from the lowest mansions of Erebus moved along, and the Ghosts deprived of light… mothers and husbands, and the departed bodies of magnanimous heroes, boys and unmarried girls, and youths laid on funeral pyres before the faces of their parents, whom the black mud and squalid reeds of Cocytus, and the lake hateful with stagnant water encloses around, and styx nine times interfused restrains.”  (-translation from the Latin by John Martyn.)

         The word Chthonic in my title is an adjective describing something belonging to the underworld. This would be an apt time to discuss the structure and details of the ancient Greek underworld; the realm of Hades. Our oldest literary source in Homer’s “Odyssey” (700 B.C.) portrays the realm as dark, gloomy, and frightening. A place where all souls go, and lacking skin and bone; have no physical form. The shades (spirits) wander mindless, and without memory.

         In Virgil’s “Aeneid” (25 B.C.) we get a much more detailed account of the geography. Our hero Aeneas pays the boatman Charon to ferry him across the river styx, and after passing the three headed guard-hound Cerberus, they eventually come to a crossroad leading to two important realms; Tartarus (an invincible fortress guarded by one of the Furies, where sinners are punished) and Elysium (a sunny paradise where pure souls pursue leisure activities).

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#hades #orpheus #persephone #underworld #eurydice #pjo #percyjacksonandtheolympians #percyjackson #greekgods #furies #tartarus #elysium #ancientgreece #ovid #virgil #tylermileslockett #charon #riverstyx #cerberus #loreolympus #Orpheus #Hades

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Henri Regnault (French, 1843–1871) Orpheus in the Underworld, ca.1860s Musée d'Orsay

#Henri Regnault #french art #orpheus #orpheus in the underworld #hades and persephone #persephone #hades #greek mythology #southern europe #mediterranean #french #france #art #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #oil painting #fine arts #europa #western civilization #1800s

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

#orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice #greek mythology #greek tragedy #orpheus in the underworld

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

dead boy detectives is the perfect cure for a broken heart

#missing lockwood and co? cozy yet horrifying found family vibes right here. also ghosts #missing julie and the phantoms? its just a girl and her ghost boys doing the best they can #missing nancy drew? this has got supernatural mysteries with just touch of true love #missing supernatural? absolutely unhinged type of storyline following two boys who would die for each other without hesitation #missing orpheus and eurydice? guess what they both make it out of the underworld this time. #missing teen wolf? the relationships are everything. also the ongoing quest to be a good person despite the world #not to mention a banging soundtrack #and an adorable romantic plotline for everyone i'm crying #i'm not tricking you i swear #dead boy detectives #dead boy detective agency #lockwood and co #julie and the phantoms #nancy drew #supernatural #orpheus and eurydice #edwin and charles #crystal and charles #please watch it i’m begging you

[the-evil-clergyman]

Orpheus and Eurydice by Emil Neide (1876)

#emil neide #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academism #academicism #academic art #painting #german art #german artist #mythology #greek mythology #orpheus #eurydice #cerberus #underworld #classic art

[nepobabyeurydice]

Writing Snippet:

Hazel Levesque died for the second time after drowning the man who killed her brother in crude, black oil.

The black blood which she had once used to raise Alcyoneus, her first child and killer, slipped into the lungs of the cruel, spiteful god that had taken what was hers and ripped him apart from the inside out. He fought back of course, and she dug in, and in the end Thanatos, sad-eyed and proud in equal measure as immortal essence dissipated into Chaos, came for her.

Frank, Hazel thought tiredly as she inhaled a painful breath. Leo, Camp.

But, no Nico. No brother-father-friend to lift her out of her self-made grave again. No grieving child stumbling into the field of endless chattering ghosts. No new brother for Hades would not love again so fiercely ever again like he had once loved Maria di Angelo.

No Nico, Hazel realized, and her mortal tether snapped.

#my writing #hazel levesque #nico di angelo #heroes of olympus #orpheus is looking back and i’m being dragged into the underworld by hermes

[gracebriarwoodwrites]

Eurydice's Tale is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, from Eurydice's perspective. Eurydice stops Orpheus on his way to the River Lethe and asks him to hear her side of the story instead of abandoning his memories. With nods to the original mythology and a fresh perspective on love and grief, Eurydice's Tale is my favorite of all of my previous chapbooks.

The remastered version is downloadable and available in my Ko-fi shop here!

#poem #poetry #chapbook #mythology #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice #hades and persephone #the underworld #indie chapbook

[shawnfreki]

Orpheus in the Underworld - Pierre Amédée Marcel Beronneau, 1897.

#art #artwork #esoteric #esoteric art #esoteric artwork #dark art #dark artwork #classic art #orpheus #underworld