Orpheus

Orpheus was a son of Oeagrus and Calliope, who was the muse of epic poetry.
==History==
===Orpheus and Eurydice===
Orpheus was a very gifted musician trained by the god of music, Apollo, himself. His music was so beautiful and sweet that it charmed many wild beasts, made trees sob, and even created an entrance to the Underworld itself. He fell in love with and married Eurydice, a daughter of Apollo.
A few months later, she was bitten by venomous snakes and died. Distraught at her untimely death, Orpheus sang his way into the Underworld, bewitching Charon, Cerberus, the Furies and even Hades and Persephone themselves. Hades allowed him to take his wife back, on the condition that he would walk in front of her and not look behind him as he led her back to the upper world along the borderland between the living and the dead. However, he could not resist the temptation. The moment he crossed the border, he looked back just before his wife left the Underworld, losing her forever.
Orpheus was later ripped apart by the Maenads on Dionysus' orders for the depressing music. His head and harp floated in the sea for while before being found by Apollo. The god cast the harp into the stars and the head was made a oracle at a shrine at Antissa. When Orpheus was finally killed by Apollo, his soul was reunited with Eurydice in Elysium.
===The Argonautica===
Orpheus also had a role aboard the Argo with Jason. He used his lyre to put the Colchian Dragon to sleep and later drowned out the song of the Sirens.
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