person
Orpheus
The Thracian singer whose music charmed the lords of the dead into releasing his wife Eurydice, lost again when he looked back.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §88.39 Orpheus
Mythical Thracian singer, reckoned among the earliest poets; the chronological gap to Homer is one of the futile questions Seneca dismisses.
- Hercules (Mad) §582 Orpheus
The singer who charmed the underworld to win back Eurydice, the chorus's exemplum of art against death.
- Hercules on Oeta §1056 the holy one
Orpheus, the Thracian singer whose music moved nature and the powers of death; son of the Muse Calliope.
- Medea §217 Orpheus
The Argonaut singer whose music moved rocks and trees; counted among those Medea 'saved.'
- Medea §625 born of the tuneful Muse
Orpheus, son of a Muse, whose song stilled rivers and winds; here his death and dismemberment in Thrace.