Eurydices Body
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- Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
- Written by Liz Locke
The Graeco-Roman myth of Orpheus's descent to the Underworld to retrieve his dead bride, Eurydice, has, at least since the sixth century BCE, epitomized the transcendent nature of art and the tragic impotence of erotic love in the face of death.