#source: ovid

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Taz the devourer of all things.

Taz 

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Research Notes

Orpheus and Eurydice from Metamorphoses: Book X by Ovid (translator: A. S. Kline) Another early version of the myth, Ovid’s version is similar in many ways to Virgil’s. It objectifies Eurydice even further. Eurydice’s role in this story is only her role in relation to Orpheus. She’s given no thoughts or actions of her own, and only speaks one word.

- Bad omens pre-wedding - Eurydice stepped on a poisonous snake and was bitten - Orpheus tries and fails to accept her death before journeying to the underworld - He argues that since both of them will die eventually, Hades isn’t losing anything by returning her - Eurydice is referred to multiple times as a “gift” - She walks with a limp due to the wound on her foot - “Dying a second time, now, there was no complaint to her husband (what, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?). She spoke a last ‘farewell’ that, now, scarcely reached his ears, and turned again towards that same place.” - Orpheus tried again but was turned away at the Styx - Orpheus turned to male lovers after the loss of Eurydice (an interesting tidbit that to my knowledge shows up in no other adaptations)