avvoltoio:MYTHOLOGY MEME [1/∞]: Orpheus, legendary poet, musician, and prophet Orpheus was the son
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avvoltoio:MYTHOLOGY MEME [1/∞]: Orpheus, legendary poet, musician, and prophet Orpheus was the son of the muse Calliope and the Thracian King Oeagrus. As a child, Apollo gave him a golden lyre and taught him how to play it, and his mother with the rest of the muses taught him how to sing. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music. Orpheus was one of the most revered figures of the Hellenistic world. The Ancient Greeks believed him to be the first epic poet, and the founder of the cults of Apollo and Dionysos. He was also the legendary founder and prophet of a popular mystery cult called Orphism. -- source link