\b0 Considered the son of \b \cf4 \ATXht9 Apollo\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and the Muse Calliope, an unsurpassable poet and sin
ger. Apollo made him the gift of the lyre and the \b \cf4 \ATXht11321 Muses\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 taught him to play it. He lived in Thrace at the time of the \b \cf4 \ATXht101 Argonauts\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and accompanied them on their expedition. He descended
into Hades to seek his wife \b \cf4 \ATXht10518 Eurydice\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and through his art managed to bring her back to the world of the living. His impatience ruined everything in the end. His desperation over the definitive loss of Eurydice made him
adopt a contemptuous and offensive attitude toward the women of Thrace who, in the end, exasperated and caught up in the Bacchic frenzy, tore him to pieces.\par
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\b \i \cf4 \ATXht1048 The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice