Lesson 3 Orpheus Flashcards
There were nine goddesses called ?
Muses
Born of Zeus and a Titan named
Mnemosyne
She was the mother of Orpheus (a mortal because his father was one) and gave to her son a remarkable talent for music.
Calliope
one of these sisters, was the inspiration of poets and musicians.
Calliope
played his lyre so sweetly that he charmed all things on earth.
Orpheus
Men and women forgot their cares when they gathered around him to listen.
Orpheus
Wild beasts lay down as if they were tame, entranced by his soothing notes.
Orpheus
Even rocks and trees followed him, and the rivers changed their directions to hear him play.
Orpheus
he loved a young woman named Eurydice
Orpheus
How did Eurydice died?
she stepped on a poisonous snake.
roamed the earth, singing sad melodies to try to overcome his grief.
Orpheus
He longed for Eurydice so deeply that he decided to follow her to the?
Underworld
“I will charm Persephone and Hades with my music and win Eurydice’s release” said who?
Orpheus
When he reached the river ___, he plucked his lyre and charon.
Styx
the fierce three headed dog who guarded the gates, heard the sweet music and lay still to let him pass.
Cerberus
the ___ cried when they heard his sad music.
ghosts
who had been condemned to roll a rock uphill forever, stopped his fruitless work to listen.
Sisyphus
who had been sentenced to stand in a pool of receding water,stopped trying to quench his thirst.
Tantalus
And even the wheel to which ___ was tied as punishment stopped turning for one moment.
Lxion
king and queen of the underworld.
Hades and Persephone
she was so moved that, for the first time in all her months in the underworld, her heart melted.
Persephone
he began to weep when he heard orpheus’s song.
Hades
She must follow you, and “you must not look back at her until you are on earth again.” said who?
Hades
left the underworld and made their way through the dark passage that led to the upper world.
Orpheus and Eurydice
He caught one last glimpse of her with her arms stretched out to him.
Orpheus
she disappeared, swallowed up by darkness.
Eurydice
“Farewell,” he heard who cry? as ___ was carried back to the underworld.
Eurydice
And so he wandered the earth alone.
Orpheus
He sang his sad songs to the rocks and the trees and longed for the time when he, too, would die and be reunited with his beloved Eurydice in the underworld.
Orpheus
