There’s Life After Death, An Attempt to Understand the Orphic Tradition
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Orpheus and the Underworld
Orpheus is mentioned by euripides in the alcestis, and that's where we get the idea that he travelled to the underworld for his wife. Alternately, he's mentioned in plato's symposium also for travelling to the afterlife for eurydice but there he fails. The key to it all, though, at least in terms of all this orphic tradition, is orpheus and his descent into the underworld,. His visit with the cathonic deities there, an his return to the land of the living. But first, before we get into the knitti gritty of this tradition, i want to add a caviat as you all know, i
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