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Ovid Orpheus and Eurydice from the Metamorphases

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The Theology of Orpheus

G.R.S. Mead
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An Orphic Timeline

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The Mystic Philosophy of Orpheus

R.M. Lewis
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The Mytholology of Orpheus and the Mysteries

Maria Daniels
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Shedding Light on Some Orphic Gods

Stefanie Goodart
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Orpheus Remembered: The Rediscovery of Opheus during the Renaissance

Alex Broquet
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Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Orpheus

Jean Cocteau
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Orpheus Today

Ralph H. Abraham, Ph.D.
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The Orphic Mysteries

Joscelyn Godwin, Ph.D.
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Ancient Wisdom Rises from the Ashes

Steven Armstrong M.A.
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Orphic Hymns

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Orpheus and Eurydice

Virgil
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Orpheus and Eurydice from the Metamorphoses

Ovid
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Sonnets to Orpheus

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Music Inspired by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice