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ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE

Orpheus was the son of Apollo and Calliope, the Muse. Apollo gave his son a lyre and taught him how to play.
According to the myth Orpheus and Eurydice fall in love each other, they decided to ger married but don't get married because during the wedding she decides to take some fresh air, as she wandering a snake(serpants) bites Eurydice's ankle and she dies. Orpheus travels to the underworld to and ask Hades and Cerberus to let Eurydice to go back they affect Orpheus's music and delighted and Hades agree to let her go, but there is one condition, Orpheus is forbidden to look back untill the end of the tunel but before they come exist of the tunel, he mades it and looks back and lost forever and not allowed to go inside again
Orpheus plays  ad music a long time, he refuses other women, so Meades turn into peaces, He is buried at the Olympus by the Muses 
Nightingales sang at his funeral.




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