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Singer and lyre player from Thrace in Greek legend and myth. His mother was Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry.
  
 
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...with his songs, Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him...
 
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==External Links==
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*[http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph10.htm Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', book 10, translated Anthony S. Kline, 2000]
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[[Category:Fictional bards, minstrels, and troubadours]]

Latest revision as of 08:43, 6 October 2017

Singer and lyre player from Thrace in Greek legend and myth. His mother was Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry.

...with his songs, Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him...

External Links