Reading notes

• The Aeneid §6.119 Orpheus

  The Thracian singer who went down to bring back his wife by the power of his lyre.

• The Aeneid §6.644 Thracian priest

  Orpheus, here the long-robed singer accompanying the dance of the blessed on his lyre.

• The Eclogues §3.46 Orpheus

  The mythical Thracian singer whose music moved beasts, trees and rivers; a measure of supreme song in Eclogues 4, 6 and 8.

• The Georgics §4.454 Orpheus

  The supreme singer who descends to the dead to win back Eurydice and loses her by looking back.