num_pages: 96
description: Soon after his marriage to Eurydice Orpheus loses his bride to a serpent's bite. The tale of Orpheus' search for her through the underworld is one of the most beloved episodes from Ovid's masterpiece The Metamorphoses. It's a classic myth of love beyond death translated by Mary M. Innes.
language: English
title: Orpheus in the Underworld
publisher: Penguin