Eurydice
<p >In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology" >Greek mythology</a>, <b>Eurydice</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/jʊˈrɪdɨsiː/</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language" >Greek</a>: Εὐρυδίκη, <i>Eurydikē</i>) was an oak <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph" >nymph</a> or one of the daughters of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo" >Apollo</a> (the god of music, who also drove the sun chariot, 'adopting' the power as god of the Sun from the primordial god <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios" title="Helios" >Helios</a>.) She was the wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus" >Orpheus</a>, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.</p>
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<p ><b>Eurydice</b> was the wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus" title="Orpheus" >Orpheus</a>, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristaeus" title="Aristaeus" >Aristaeus</a> saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, was bitten, and died instantly. Distraught, Orpheus played and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and deities wept and told him to travel to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Underworld" title="Greek Underworld" class="mw-redirect" >Underworld</a> to retrieve her, which he gladly did. After his music softened the hearts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades(mythology)" title="Hades (mythology)" class="mw-redirect" >Hades</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone" >Persephone</a>, his singing so sweet that even the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes" title="Erinyes" >Erinyes</a> wept, he was allowed to take her back to the world of the living. In another version, Orpheus played his lyre to put <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus" title="Cerberus" >Cerberus</a>, the guardian of Hades, to sleep, after which Eurydice was allowed to return with Orpheus to the world of the living. Either way, the condition was attached that he must walk in front of her and not look back until both had reached the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_World(Greek)" title="Upper World (Greek)" >upper world</a>. Soon he began to doubt that she was there, and that Hades had deceived him. Just as he reached the portals of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades" title="Hades" >Hades</a> and daylight, he turned around to gaze on her face, and because Eurydice had not yet crossed the threshold, she vanished back into the Underworld. When Orpheus later was killed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maenad" title="Maenad" >Maenads</a> at the orders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus" >Dionysus</a>, his soul ended up in the Underworld where he was reunited with Eurydice.
 
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