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Death of Orpheus

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Orphic poems and rites

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 |[[Media:Orpheus and the Thracians wiki.ogg|'''1. Orpheus and the Thracians,''' read by Timothy Carter, music by Steve Gorn, compiled by Andrew Calimach]]
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-|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes,'' 4.176 (462 BC); Roman marble bas-relief, copy of a Greek original from the late 5th c. (c. 420 BC); [[Aristophanes]], ''The Frogs'' 1032 (c. 400 BC); [[Phanocles]], ''Erotes e Kaloi,'' 15 (3rd c. BC); [[Apollonios Rhodios]], ''Argonautika,'' i.2 (c. 250 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' 1.3.2 (140 BC); [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Histories'' I.23, I.96, III.65, IV.25 (1st c. BC); [[Conon]], ''Narrations,'' 45 (50 - 1 BC); Virgil, ''Georgics,'' IV.456 (37 - 30 BC); [[Horace]], ''Odes,'' I.12; ''Ars Poetica'' 391-407 (23 BC); Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' X.1-85, XI.1-65 (AD 8); [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], ''Hercules Furens'' 569 (1st c. AD); [[Hyginus]], ''Poetica Astronomica'' II.7 Lyre (2st c. AD); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece,'' 2.30.2, 9.30.4, 10.7.2 (AD 143 - 176); Anonymous,	''The Clementine Homilies,'' Homily V Chapter XV.-Unnatural Lusts (c. AD 400); Anonymous, ''Orphic Argonautica'' (5th c. AD); [[Stobaeus]], ''Anthologium'' (c. AD 450); [[Second Vatican Mythographer]], 44. Orpheus
+|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes,'' 4.176 (462 BC); Roman marble bas-relief, copy of a Greek original from the late 5th c. (c. 420 BC); [[Aristophanes]], ''The Frogs'' 1032 (c. 400 BC); [[Phanocles]], ''Erotes e Kaloi,'' 15 (3rd c. BC); [[Apollonios Rhodios]], ''Argonautika,'' i.2 (c. 250 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' 1.3.2 (140 BC); [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Histories'' I.23, I.96, III.65, IV.25 (1st c. BC); [[Conon]], ''Narrations,'' 45 (50 - 1 BC); Virgil, ''Georgics,'' IV.456 (37 - 30 BC); [[Horace]], ''Odes,'' I.12; ''Ars Poetica'' 391-407 (23 BC); Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' X.1-85, XI.1-65 (AD 8); Seneca, ''Hercules Furens'' 569 (1st c. AD); [[Hyginus]], ''Poetica Astronomica'' II.7 Lyre (2st c. AD); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece,'' 2.30.2, 9.30.4, 10.7.2 (AD 143 - 176); Anonymous,	''The Clementine Homilies,'' Homily V Chapter XV.-Unnatural Lusts (c. AD 400); Anonymous, ''Orphic Argonautica'' (5th c. AD); [[Stobaeus]], ''Anthologium'' (c. AD 450); Second Vatican Mythographer, 44. Orpheus
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 ==Death of Orpheus==
-According to a Late Antique summary of [[Aeschylus]]'s lost play ''Bassarids'', Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods save the sun, whom he called [[Apollo]]. One early morning he ascended [[Mount Pangaion]] (where [[Dionysus]] had an oracle) to salute his god at dawn, but was torn to death by Thracian [[Maenads]] for not honoring his previous patron, Dionysus. Here his death is analogous with the death of Dionysus, to whom therefore he functioned as both priest and [[avatar]].
+According to a Late Antique summary of [[Aeschylus]]'s lost play ''Bassarids'', Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods save the sun, whom he called [[Apollo]]. One early morning he ascended [[Mount Pangaion]] (where [[Dionysus]] had an oracle) to salute his god at dawn, but was torn to death by Thracian [[Maenads]] for not honoring his previous patron, Dionysus. Here his death is analogous with the death of Dionysus, to whom therefore he functioned as both priest and avatar.
-His head and lyre, still singing mournful songs, floated down the swift [[Hebrus]] to the [[Mediterranean]] shore. There, the winds and waves carried them on to the [[Lesbos|Lesbian]] shore, where the inhabitants buried his head and a shrine was built in his honour near [[Antissa]]. The [[lyre]] was carried to heaven by the [[Muses]], and was placed amongst the stars. The Muses also gathered up the fragments of his body and buried them at Leibethra below [[Mount Olympus]], where the [[nightingale]]s sang over his grave. His soul returned to the underworld, where he was re-united at last with his beloved Eurydice.
+His head and lyre, still singing mournful songs, floated down the swift [[Hebrus]] to the [[Mediterranean]] shore. There, the winds and waves carried them on to the [[Lesbos|Lesbian]] shore, where the inhabitants buried his head and a shrine was built in his honour near [[Antissa]]. The [[lyre]] was carried to heaven by the [[Muses]], and was placed amongst the stars. The Muses also gathered up the fragments of his body and buried them at Leibethra below [[Mount Olympus]], where the nightingales sang over his grave. His soul returned to the underworld, where he was re-united at last with his beloved Eurydice.
 In [[Attic]] vase painting, however, the women who attack Orpheus appear to be normal Thracian women, who are irritated that the bard's songs have stolen their husbands away from them.

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 ==Genealogy==
-According to the best-known tradition, Orpheus was the son of [[Oeagrus]], king of [[Thrace]], which in pre-historic period seems to describe a wider region from [[Olymbos]] to [[Hellespont|Hellespontos]] Straits as the Orphic texts (''Argonautica'') point out that Orpheus was born in [[Mount Elikon]] at Livithra ([[Piplan]], [[Pieria]]), and [[Calliope]], the [[Muse]] of epic poetry. In other traditions,  Calliope and [[Apollo]] were his parents. Orpheus learned music from [[Linus]], or from [[Apollo]], who gave him his own lyre (made by [[Hermes]] out of a turtle shell) as a gift, in which he grew to love
+According to the best-known tradition, Orpheus was the son of [[Oeagrus]], king of [[Thrace]], which in pre-historic period seems to describe a wider region from [[Olympus]] to [[Hellespont|Hellespontos]] Straits as the Orphic texts (''Argonautica'') point out that Orpheus was born in [[Mount Elikon]] at Livithra ([[Piplan]], [[Pieria]]), and [[Calliope]], the [[Muse]] of epic poetry. In other traditions,  Calliope and [[Apollo]] were his parents. Orpheus learned music from [[Linus]], or from [[Apollo]], who gave him his own lyre (made by [[Hermes]] out of a turtle shell) as a gift, in which he grew to love
 ==The Argonautic expedition==

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 == References ==
-[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]''  X, 1-105; XI,  1-66; [[Apollodorus]],
+Ovid, ''Metamorphoses''  X, 1-105; XI,  1-66; [[Apollodorus]],
 ''[[Bibliotheke]]'' I,  iii, 2; ix,  16 & 25;  [[Apollonius Rhodius]],
 ''[[Argonautica]]'' I, 23- 34; IV, 891-909.

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 ==Orphic poems and rites==
-A large number of Greek religious poems in [[hexameter]] were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like [[Bakis]], [[Musaeus]], [[Abaris]], [[Aristeas]], [[Epimenides]], and the [[Sybil]].  Of this vast literature, only two examples survive whole: a set of [[hymns]] composed at some point in the  [[2nd century|2nd]] or [[3rd century|3rd]] century AD, and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between  the [[4th century|4th]] and [[6th century|6th]] centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature, which may date back as far as the [[6th century BC]], survives only in [[papyrus]] scraps or in quotations by later authors.
+A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like [[Bakis]], [[Musaeus]], [[Abaris]], [[Aristeas]], [[Epimenides]], and the [[Sybil]].  Of this vast literature, only two examples survive whole: a set of hymns composed at some point in the  [[2nd century|2nd]] or [[3rd century|3rd]] century AD, and an Orphic Argonautica composed somewhere between  the [[4th century|4th]] and [[6th century|6th]] centuries AD. Earlier Orphic literature, which may date back as far as the [[6th century BC]], survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors.
-In addition to serving as a storehouse of mythological data along the lines of [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Orphic poetry was recited in mystery-rites and purification rituals. [[Plato]] in particular tells of a class  of vagrant beggar-priests  who would  go about  offering purifications to the rich, a clatter of books by  Orpheus and [[Musaeus]] in tow ([[Plato's Republic|Republic]] 364c-d). Those who were especially devoted to these ritual and poems often practiced [[vegetarianism]], abstention from [[sex]], and refrained from eating eggs &mdash; which came to be known as the ''Orphikos bios'', or "Orphic way of life".
+In addition to serving as a storehouse of mythological data along the lines of [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Orphic poetry was recited in mystery-rites and purification rituals. [[Plato]] in particular tells of a class  of vagrant beggar-priests  who would  go about  offering purifications to the rich, a clatter of books by  Orpheus and [[Musaeus]] in tow ([[Plato's Republic|Republic]] 364c-d). Those who were especially devoted to these ritual and poems often practiced vegetarianism, abstention from sex, and refrained from eating eggs &mdash; which came to be known as the ''Orphikos bios'', or "Orphic way of life".
 == The post-classical Orpheus ==