Character History
Character of ancient Greek myths. The famous singer and musician, the personification of the all-level action of art.History of origin
Father Orpheus - Thracian river God Eagr, and Mother - Calliopa, Muse of poetry, philosophy and science. This is the most common version of the origin of the Orpheus, although the characters of the hero are called other music, and the father is a patron of art, the God of Apollo. The first preserved references to ORFEE are found from the ancient Greek poets Ivik and Alkeya.
Myths
Orpheus lived in one village near the Mountain Olympus - houses of the gods. God Apollo considered Orpheus a favorite and presented the hero of the Golden Liru - a magic tool, with which Orpheus could move rocks and trees and tame wild beasts. Orpheus's voice caused joy to everyone who heard him. During the funeral, Pelia was held a burial game where Orpheus won the game on kifare.
Orpheus became one of the participants in the campaign for the Golden Rone, a member of the Argonauts team. Later, to improve his knowledge, Orpheus went to Egypt, where he studied music, poetry, rites and theology, becoming the first in all of this. Orpheus was "vegetarian" and forbade blood shed.
The most famous myth on how Orpheus went down to Asid for his own spouse - Nymph Euridica. Evridic was stung by the snake, and the nymph died. The luckless orphea descended into the kingdom of the dead and got to the Lord of the Underground World Aida and his wife Persephone. Orpheus sang them and played on Lira. The Lords of the underground kingdom pierced sympathy to the hero and allowed the opportunity to bring Eurydick back to the surface of the Earth, into the world of living.
However, Aid put the condition according to which Orpheus was not to look at Eurydice until both were on the surface. The hero violated this prohibition not far from the exit from the underground world and looked around. Nympha ringed back, in darkness, and Orpheus again descended to the underground gods, calling about help. But they did not meet him to meet the second time, and Euridic remained among the dead.
Death
The death of the Orpheus in ancient Greece is described in several versions, but they all reduce that the hero was alive by confused by distraught women. According to Ovid, the companions of Dionysus Menada "glued" to the Orfure, but he rejected women, for which they were broken. According to another version, Orpheus became inadvertently witnessed by Dionysian Mysteries and was killed for it. According to the third - the hero missed the name of Dionysus when he praised the gods in the song.
The death of the Orpheus was paid for the muses who gathered pieces of a broken body of the hero to bury, and the gold line of Orpheus Ruverzzz Zeus turned the Lyra in the constellation. There is also a myth about a certain sanctuary on the island of Lesbos, where the torn head of Orpheus crossed the prophecy.
Shielding
In 1950, the French director Jean Cocteau removed the surreal film "Orpheus." The script of the film is based on the coke's own play, the basis for which, in turn, served as a myth of ORFEE.
Film events unfold in the modern world. Orpheus, the famous poet with many fans, becomes a witness to how some princess in black one touch revives the corpse. The princess - the image of the death itself - falls in love with the Orpheus and is to the lie of the hero, while he sleeps. And in the young wife of Orpheus, Eurydika falls in love with the Outdoor Death Satellite named Ertebiz. The film also has a wanderings of the hero on the otherworldly the winning world in search of the deceased spouse, and the canonical ban is to look at Eurydice, which is disturbed. The final, however, is optimistic.
The role of Orpheus in this film played a cult actor Jean Mare. The actor and later had to be in the role of the characters of ancient mythology. In 1985, Mare played the role of the Lord of the Underworld Aida in the film "Parkovka", and in the film "Abduction of Sabinets" (1961) Mare played Bologamarsa.
In 1960, the same Jean Cocketon shot another film - "Ophery's will," where Koketo himself acts as a poet (Orpheus). Both films are part of the "Ophpical trilogy", and in the "Warring Testament" there are some characters from the previous film. And also another mythological character - Oedip, which is played by Jean Mare.
In 1959, a joint Franco-Italian-Brazilian film "Black Orpheus" came out. Events again unfold in the modern world. Orpheus - a young musician who plays a guitar and takes up the tram conductor. The Orpheus has a bride - an exotic lady whose life looks like a carnival. There are in scenarios and Eurydika - a girl pursuing a mysterious stranger. Events occur in Rio de Janeiro during the annual carnival. The role of Orpheus in the film Played actor Breno Melo.
In 1998, a fantastic melodrama "Where dreams lead", which was built on the canon of the MiF about the ORFE, although directly characters and the myth events are not involved in the plot. The hero of the film loses children, and then dies himself in the car accident. The hero's wife cums the life of suicide, and the deceased hero, the soul of which fell into paradise, go to hell to find a spouse there and save.