The earliest mentions of a supreme musician called Orpheus date back to the sixth century BCE, and in the fourth century BCE the philosopher Plato commented specifically on the myth of Orpheus and ...

Did Orpheus wear chartreuse? When Aubree Oliverson, wearing a vivid yellow-green dress, performed Antonio Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in E Minor (RV 278) in Kontrapunktus’s program “Il Nuovo Orfeo,” she ...

It's a tale familiar from Virgil and Ovid. The beautiful Eurydice, newly married to the musician Orpheus, is killed by a snakebite. Overcome with grief, Orpheus descends to Hades to bring her back to ...

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Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...