person
Orpheus
Thracian singer, son of a Muse, whose song stilled wild beasts; here invoked as a poet whom death still took.
Reading notes
- The Loves §3.9 Orpheus
Thracian singer, son of a Muse, whose song stilled wild beasts and yet could not save him from death.
- The Art of Love §3.16 Rhodopeian Orpheus
Orpheus of Thracian Rhodope, whose lyre moved rocks, beasts, and the powers of the underworld.
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.9 Orpheus were the only bard
Orpheus, the archetypal Thracian singer; Ovid flatters Cotys that Thrace need not rest its poetic glory on Orpheus alone.
- Ibis §19 Orpheus
Orpheus, torn to pieces by the Thracian ('Strymonian') women.
- Metamorphoses §10.286 Orpheus
The Thracian bard whose song moves even the powers of the dead; son of the Muse Calliope.
- Sorrows §4.1 Orpheus
The singer who drew woods and rocks while mourning his twice-lost Eurydice; the type of song born of grief.