Metamorphoses 10: Orpheus the Misogynist
<p>The silver-tongued Orpheus appeals to Pluto and Proserpina as a couple united by Love (a euphemistic description of the events of <a href="https://medium.com/@joannakenty/metamorphoses-5-around-the-world-b7b338689503" rel="noopener">Book 5</a>), the same god who brought Eurydice to Orpheus, and as the powerful rulers of all humankind. He even offers to die himself. His song is so beautiful and moving that even the pitiless Furies start to cry, and the Underworld gods relent and bring Eurydice back to him. They warn him not to look back at her, but he can’t resist: “he, afraid that she might falter, eager to see her, / Looked back in love, and she was gone, in a moment” (56–7), and Eurydice dies a “double death.”</p>
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