Orpheus (mythological figure)

Orpheus is a legendary Greek musician and poet renowned for his extraordinary ability to charm all living things and even inanimate objects with his music. His most famous story involves traveling to the Underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, who had died. By skillfully playing his lyre, he persuaded Hades and Persephone to allow her to return with him, but he faltered by looking back too early, causing her to be lost forever. Orpheus’s tale highlights themes of love, loss, and the power of art to influence the divine.