IB Latin SL - Orpheus and Eurydice (Ovid)

A famous bard, poet, and husband of Eurydice. He loses his wife twice but rejoins her in the underworld.

Wife of Orpheus who died to a snake bite on her ankle

God of weddings who came to Orpheus' wedding, bringing bad omens, and foreshadowing Eurydice's death

Queen of the Underworld, who had been kidnapped by Pluto/Hades, king of the underworld, from the Overworld, daughter of Ceres

King of the underworld; husband of Proserpina

God of love, shot Pluto/Hades with a love arrow, causing him to abduct Persephone/Proserpina

Mother of Cupid

control the thread of life and human fate, deciding when they die (Nona/Decima/Morta)

50 female descendants of Belus, forced to marry 50 princes, 49 killed husbands, forced to fill jugs fully which has holes

A king who murdered many and chained Thanatos (God of death) to a stone, forced to roll a stone uphill for all of eternity

stole food of the gods, murdered his son Pelops, and put Pelops's flesh in the king's food, forced to feel eternal hunger

murdered father-in-law, given chance of redemption in Olympus, lusted over Juno, tied to spinning flaming wheel for all of eternity

a titan who tried to assault Leto, killed by Diana/Apollo, staked to the ground with birds pecking his liver for all of eternity

group of 3 snake-headed, sharp-winged monsters who are invoked by all to exact revenge on those who have wronged them

Ferryman of the underworld at the river Styx

Goddess of agriculture and harvest

female followers of Dionysus (God of wine) who killed Orpheus while drunk

Portal to the Underworld

souls residing from not being buried or awaiting trial

where Hades and Persephone reside

souls who have been punished for their wrongdoings

Avernian Valley

where those who have been buried and have done no wrongdoings reside

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The god was certainly present, but he did not bring sacred words, happy faces, nor a happy omen. Orpheus saw the gold hold a torch which was hissing with tear-inducing smoke. 'Let there be light!', Hymenaeus shouted, but he found no flames with motion. The god did not even know that such a disaster will occur. If only Orpheus knew! Meanwhile the new bride was walking through grasses, accompanied by a band of water nymphs. Suddenly she died by taking in the tooth of a serpent into her ankle. Now the journey to the Underworld may begin...

After Orpheus wept enough to the higher winds (gods), so that he should not test the shadows, he has dared to descend to the Underworld through the Taenarian door, and through the weightless people and the buried ghosts in their grave, he approached Persephone and the ruler of the shadows holding unpleasant power, and as the strings were plucked to his song, he sung thus:

"Oh gods of the world, although placed under the Earth into which we return, whatever mortal thing we are created, if it is permitted, allow me to say the truth with the digressions of my false mouth placed away, I did not descend so I would see the dark Underworld, and nor so that I would conquer the three thrones of the master of Medusa: the cause of the journey is my wife, into which she stepped on a snake which spreaded poison and she took away growing years.

I wished to be able to endure pain and I will not deny that I attempted to, Love conquered me! Whether this god was well known among the higher region and where he should be here, I doubt. But I still predict him to be here, and the story of the ancient abduction was not lied about. Love united each one of you, I, through these places full of fear, through this huge chaos and the silences of your vast kingdom, I beg, reweave the rushed fate of Eurydice!

All things are being owed to you all, and shortly, sooner of later, we all rush to one chair. We all reach this place, this is the last house, and you all hold the longest kingdoms of human kind. Also this woman will have died mature with years deserved, she will be under your law; we ask for enjoyment in place of a gift.

But if the Fates deny the pardon on behalf of my bride, it is certain for me to be unwilling to return; you all rejoice with the death of 2." The bloodless souls were crying, Orpheus saying such, and the string moving to his words, nor Tantalus took hold of the fleeing wave, and he was astounded by Ixions wheel, nor the birds pecked at the liver, and the Beliades' emptied their urns, you sat on your stone, Sisyphus.

There is a story that the cheeks of the Furies were then wet at first, conquered by the song (of Orpheus), and the queen doesn't bear to deny the one begging, nor he who rules below, and they call Eurydice. Eurydice was among the recent deaths, and she steps forwards with a slow step from her wound.

The Rhodopeian hero (Orpheus) received Eurydice at the same time as the rule that he not bend his eyes back until he will have exited the Avernian Valleys; or the gift will be invalid. The sloped, steep, obscure and dense path is being taken through the silent dead (by Orpheus), through the dark mist.

And Orpheus and Eurydice were not far away from the highest edge of the land: Orpehus fearing that she fails and eager of seeing, the lover bent his eyes, and immediately Eurydice fell back, and stretching her arms to grasp and to be grasped, unlucky Orpheus takes hold of nothing except withdrawing airs.

And now, dying again, she did not complain about her spouse (what could she complain except for that she has been loved?) and for the last time she said 'bye', yet hardly that Orpheus could hear it with his ears, he said and again, in the same way, she rolled back.

And for nothing again, Charon had warded off begging Orpheus wanting to cross: the disheveled man sat that the shore without his gift of Ceres for 7 days; the care, pain, and tears of his soul were his nourishment.

Orpheus complained that the gods of Erebus were cruel, he takes himself high into Mt. Rhodepe...

... and Orpheus fled every feminine love, either because it had resulted badly for him, or it had given his word; still the passion compelled many women to join themselves to the poet, and many rejected women were hurt.

Orpheus went under the lands and he recognizes all the location, which he had seen before, and looking the fields of the blessed, he came upon Eurydice and hugs her with eager arms; now both walk here with connected steps, one now follows the one leading, Orpheus leading now walking in front (of Eurydice), and Orpheus looks back safely at his Eurydice.