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Orpheus

Orpheus, Thracian poet

Paus. 9.30.4-12
son of Oeagrus or Apollo and Calliope: Apollod. 1.3.1
son of Muse Calliope or of daughter of Pierus: Paus. 9.30.4
brother of Linus: Apollod. 2.4.9
younger than Olen: Paus. 9.27.2
a cunning enchanter: Paus. 6.20.18
his music: Apollod. 1.3.1
beasts follow him as he sings: Paus. 6.20.18, Paus. 9.17.7, Paus. 9.30.4
restrains the Argonauts at the Sirens: Apollod. 1.9.24
goes to hell or to Aornum in Thesprotis to bring back soul of his wife Eurydice: Paus. 9.30.4, 6
tries to bring up his dead wife Eurydice from Hades: Apollod. 1.3.1, Apollod. 1.3.2
discovers mystic rites and purifications: Paus. 9.30.4, Paus. 10.7.2
invents mysteries of Dionysus: Apollod. 1.3.2
institutes mysteries of Hecate at Aegina: Paus. 2.30.2
teaches Lacedaemonians worship of Subterranean Demeter: Paus. 3.14.5
makes temple of Saviour Maid at Sparta: Paus. 3.13.2
refuses to compete at Pythian games: Paus. 10.7.2
murdered by Thracian women: Paus. 9.30.5
torn to pieces by the Maenads: Apollod. 1.3.2
his tomb near Dium or Libethra in Macedonia: Paus. 9.30.7-11
buried in Pieria: Apollod. 1.3.2
in the Argo: Apollod. 1.9.17
oracle about his bones: Paus. 9.30.9
his poems: Paus. 1.14.3, Paus. 1.37.4, Paus. 9.27.2, Paus. 9.30.12
images of: Paus. 3.20.5, Paus. 5.26.3, Paus. 9.30.4
painted by Polygnotus: Paus. 10.30.6