Eurydice : a nymph, wife of Orpheus.
... meditative, affectionate. According to legend, Orpheus lived and died in Thrace, sometimes a musician, sometimes a reforming ascetic, priest of Dionysus. Legend tells us that he married the nymph Eurydice whom he passionately loved. One day she was mortally bitten by a snake. Heartbroken, Orpheus resolved to descend in the underworld to reclaim her. He was able to charm Persephone with his lyre and... the sole condition that he should not turn to look at her. They had almost reached the gates of Hades when Orpheus, overcome with anxiety lest she should not be following, looked back. Immediately Eurydice vanished, this time forever. Orpheus playing the lyre surrounded by wild beasts Page 20 The god Dionysus, represented here with some of his symbols, the ivy crown ...
... Orpheus and Eurydice illustrate this type. In the Babylonian myth, Ishtar descends into Aralu, or Hades, demands entrance to 'the land whence there is no return' and after a series of adventurous experiences rescues from the world of the dead Tammuz, her only son, who was taken away before his time. The descent-myth of Orpheus depicts how, after the death of Eurydice, his beloved... beloved wife, Orpheus descended into Hades, moved Pluto and Persephone to pity with the sweet notes of his lyre, and sought and received their permission to bring back Eurydice to the land of the living but 'on one condition — that Orpheus should precede her and not look back till they arrived on earth.' But alas, 'just before reaching the final limit, his love overcame 1 Encyclopaedia of ...
... folie through which he passed twice before writing the poem. The legend of Orpheus trying to bring back his beloved Eurydice from the underworld becomes for Nerval significant of his own affaire du coeur. he pictures himself as having gone to the underworld in search of his own Eurydice. It seems Nerval was in love with two women — Adrienne who, becoming a nun (la sainte), died to the world and Jenny ...
... made his wife, the daughter of the Gundhurva King, Chitroruth, by the sky-nymph Menaca; an earlier sister therefore of Shacountala. Their joy of union was not yet old when Priyumvada perished, like Eurydice, by the fangs of a snake. Ruaru inconsolable for her loss, wandered miserable among the forests that had been the shelter and witnesses of their loves, consuming the universe with his grief, until... price paid, was reunited with his love. Such is the story, divested of the subsequent puerile developments by which it is linked on to the Mahabharata. If we compare it with the kindred tale of Eurydice, the distinction I have sought to draw between the Hindu and Greek mytho-poetic faculty, justifies itself with great force and clearness. The incidents of Orpheus' descent into Hades, his conquering ...
... c, adventurous and perfectly picturesque, but the great tragedy or rather the great Mystery of the “end”... or of the beginning of something else. It is vaster than Orpheus and Eurydice — it might well be the Eurydice of the New world. The victory over Death. A great vision is needed to create that film. You will read soon and you will understand. Then things will unveil themselves little by little ...
... the Ion and Oedipus Coloneus in a contemporary context; Jean Anouilh Page 264 has likewise sought inspiration in the legendary or mythical stories of Antigone, Medea and Eurydice; other dramatists too—Andre Gide, Jean Giradoux, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Cocteau, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Jack Richardson—have found the ancient Greek myths susceptible to transplantation ...
... silent mighty space The green and strenuous earth abandoned rolled. 115 In the companion poem, Love and Death, 116 there is described an Indian Orpheus (Ruru) regaining his lost Eurydice (Priyumvada); the roles of the Savitri story are here reversed, for it is the husband who by the power of his love regains his partner. Ruru, Sage Brigu's grandson, and Priyumvada, the Apsara Menaca's ...
... woman in its dreadful silence and strength pitted against Death, 20 He said in a letter to His brother. The Story of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. It is the legend of the Mahabharata, Orpheus and Eurydice reversed, but with all the knowledge of the invisible worlds and a fabulous geography of what people call “death.” He corrects The Book of Fate, the last He would revise. Twenty days later, He would ...
... DOES A MAN NEED Page 503 50.BALBAN'S JUSTICE 51.THE MYSTERY OF THE TVVENTYFIVE JEWELS 52.THE THREE SURPRISES—Joan E. Cass 53.THAT INATTENTIVE BOY 54.ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE—A Greek Legend 55.MY BROTHER, MY BROTHER—Norah Burke 56.THE LAST LEAF—O. Henry 57.THE LITTLE BLACK BOY—William Blake 58.NO TIME FOR FEAR—Philip Yancey 59.MY STRUGGLE FOR AN ...
... from the Mahabharata, Adi Parva, but Sri Aurobindo has changed the name of the heroine from Pramadvura to Priyumvada. The story has its affiliations also with the Hellenic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. But Sri Aurobindo has transformed the original tale, and Love and Death sweeps on its course with a precipitancy all its own. Ruru, Sage Bhrigu's grandson, loves Priyumvada, daughter ...
... n.” “It's almost as if it were the question I had been given to solve,” said Mother. Mother is, first of all, the battle against death — because Sri Aurobindo had died in 1950. Like Orpheus and Eurydice. And for twenty-three years, she was going to do battle with “the question” like a lioness. But in fact, one cannot go into the undulation and ubiquitous life without something changing in the ...
... always had the last word. So it's as though she wanted to WREST Sri Aurobindo from death, in a way, or tear off that mask of death to see what is behind it. It's a bit like the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. What is there behind it? Why death? So she took me along in that exploration, under one pretext or another. At the beginning she used to call for me, and she sat in that high-backed chair ...
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