The Failure of Orpheus

1994John Heath

reference


author	Heath, John
title	The Failure of Orpheus
in	Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)
volume	124
pp.	163–196
imprint	Johns Hopkins University Press, American Philological Association
year	1994
doi	10.2307/284290
issn	0360-5949
at	https://www.jstor.org/stable/284290

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on the original Orpheus

… loss due to the breaking of a tabu, according to the prevailing opinion, is the invention of the Hellenistic world.^*

John Heath, ‘The Failure of Orpheus’, Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 124 (1994): 163, https://doi.org/10.2307/284290. q.v.

… is so, if indeed that “Orpheus’ ‘complete victory’ has found its way into the mythological handbooks, introductory texts, and commentaries.”^*

Heath, 163. q.v.

… here; folks interested in the rest can refer to the full paper, Heath’s article, and the thesis of Kyle Merkley.^*

… Merkley, ‘Quis Tantus Furor? The Servian Question, Gallus, and Orpheus in Georgics 4’, Theses and Dissertations, December 2016. q.v. q.v. q.v.

… fifth century BCE tragedy by Euripides. In Admetus’s lamentation over Alcestis, who willing sacrificed her life for him, he bemoans:^*

Heath, ‘The Failure of Orpheus’, 169. q.v.

… so for this reason the gods punished him and arranged for his death to come at the hands of women.^*

Heath, 178. q.v.

… to refute each of the cited examples and asserts that there is no unequivocal evidence for a pre-Christian successful Orpheus.^* He argues that the supporters of the happy ending have elected for overly optimistic interpretations of each reference and taken …

… to refute each of the cited examples and asserts that there is no unequivocal evidence for a pre-Christian successful Orpheus.^* He argues that the supporters of the happy ending have elected for overly optimistic interpretations of each reference and taken …

Heath, ‘The Failure of Orpheus’. q.v.

Heath, ‘The Failure of Orpheus’, 178. q.v.