A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 492
wed her to Hades, where the charm of his music caused the torments to cease. Pluto consented that Eurydice should accompany him to the upper world, on condition that he should not look back while upon his way. This he refrained from doing until he reached the threshold, when he turned his head and… … Orpheus, (Mosaic.) his body and buried them at the foot of Mount Olympus. Hin headwas thrown into the Hebrus and rolled to the sea, and was carriedto Lesbos. His lyre was also said to be carried there, but these twostories are only illustrations of the truth, that Lesbos was the firstplace where…
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