Talk:Eurydice

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Worth having a look at comments in book by Christine Downing Published 2004 ISBN:0595310869, page 131 (must rush, sorry) Jeremy (talk) 05:07, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

That book is "luxury of afterwards" [1]. Downing points out that Eurydice is unnamed in Plato's reference, she is named later in the 4th century BC as "Ariope". Downing speculates that this is the first occasion where Orpheus is imagined as failing. There are obvious parallels to the Sumerian "Descent of the Goddess" story where as well as the the Alcestis story where Dumuzi is forced to die for (from memory) Inanna. 203.87.64.23 (talk) 05:38, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Don't forget the Rodin sculpture "Orpheus and Eurydice" (1893) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, donated by Thomas Ryan in 1912. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.233.170.51 (talk) 21:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Agriope

I have several notes (sadly, unsourced) that say Orpheus's wife was a nymph named Agriope; another says "... an older name for Orpheus's wife was Agriope or Argiope...". One says "Hermesianax of Alexandria in the fourth century bc, refers to Eurydice as Agriope ("wild-eyed" or "wild-voiced") ... " Can anyone expand on this? The Lesser Merlin (talk) 18:12, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Itzamna and Ixchel

Where does it said that Itzamna and Ixchel are similar to Orpheus and Eurydice, and Izanagi and Izanami? It doesn't said anything in Itzamna or Ixchel. Cococrash11 (talk) 23:21, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Lot and his wife

I just added a reference to Lot and his wife to this page. I then looked back and saw that other people have added Lot and his wife in the past, but it keeps getting edited away. I removed the reference to Lot and his wife and migrated over here to the talk page. What's the rationale for the stories not being mentioned together? They seem quite similar to me.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.158.72 (talk • contribs)

Probably an absence of cited mainstream published academic sources. Wikipedia doesn't really take original research. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:55, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

There's a common motif between both stories: don't look back [source]. The story of Lot and his wife "is often compared to the story of Orpheus and his wife Eurydike" [source]. And in literature, its reasonable to see how notable authors, like Dante, alluded to both stories in tandem because Orpheus and Lot's wife were "those who look back" [source]. Of the sources, one is a biblical commentary by an academic, one is a textbook on Greek myth by an academic, one is a translation of Dante with commentary by an academic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.98.122.250 (talk) 01:03, 6 March 2015 (UTC) Now that mainstream academic support has been established between the comparison, it has been added to the page, quoting the second source.

Video games...?

... truly, if Wikipedia wants to be taken seriously... what dross is this? 'In Popular Culture' is trite enough. 2001:8003:303B:700:F4EE:5276:5135:41CD (talk) 21:42, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

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