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Orpheus
Singer and lyre player from Thrace in Greek legend and myth. His mother was Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry.
He was able to charm the animals, plants and even rocks with his playing.
He was one of the Argonauts and prevented The Sirens from luring their vessel onto the rocks by drowning out their singing with louder and more beautiful music.
He famously attempted to retrieve his wife Eurydice from the underworld. He was murdered by the maenads of Dionysus. His still living severed head, floated down the River Hebrus into the sea, singing all the way to the island of Lesbos, where the inhabitants of city of Methymna buried his head and built a shrine in his honour near Antissa.
...with his songs, Orpheus, the bard of Thrace, allured the trees, the savage animals, and even the insensate rocks, to follow him...
