ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (Revised) and STANDING FAST (GREEK AND HOMERIC TALES)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Orpheus and Eurydice is an old Greek tale retold by V.C. Turnbull which recalls the story of a gifted jmusician named Orpheus whose beautiful young wife Eurydice is killed by a viper. Orpheus descends into hell with his lyre to beg Pluto, the god of the underworld, to release her to earth again.
The second story is another old tale of a ships crew who are ordered to stand fast against adversity in order that they all might survive.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your host John |
| 0:34.4 | Haggadorn we have two stories for you today the first being Orpheus and |
| 0:39.2 | you'reidasy a love story for the ages and the second Proteus are retelling adapted by Elizabeth Harrison |
| 0:47.3 | and now Orpheus and Eurydisee retold by V.C. Turnbull. |
| 0:53.0 | In Greek mythology, Orpheus was said to be the son of Calliope, the muse of epic song. |
| 0:59.0 | He was the most ancient of poets living long before Homer. |
| 1:02.0 | The story of his |
| 1:03.4 | devotion to his wife, |
| 1:04.4 | Uridisie is one of the most famous of the classic myths. |
| 1:08.4 | Never was there a musician like Orpheus who sang songs inspired by the muses to a |
| 1:17.0 | lira that was given to him by Apollo. So mighty indeed was the magic of his |
| 1:22.0 | music that nature herself owned his way. |
| 1:26.0 | Not only did rocks and rills repeat his lays, but the very trees uprooted themselves to follow |
| 1:31.0 | in his train, and the savage beasts of the forest were tamed and |
| 1:34.9 | fond upon him as he played and sang. But of all who hearkened enchanted to those |
| 1:39.7 | matchless strains none drew deeper delight than the singer's newlywed wife, the young and lovely |
| 1:45.5 | eurydicy. |
| 1:47.5 | Hour by hour she sat at his feet, hearkening to the music of his voice and Lira, and that gods themselves might have envied the happy pair. |
| 1:56.4 | And surely some God did look with envious eye upon those two, for on an evil day, |
| 2:01.8 | Eurydice, strolling with their maidens through a flowery meadow, was bitten on her foot by a viper, and perished in all her beauty, ere the sun went down. |
| 2:11.0 | Then Orpheus, terrible in his anguish, swore that death itself should not forever |
| 2:16.2 | rob him of his love. His song, which could tame wild beasts and drag the ancient trees |
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