What's the difference between orphean and orpheus?
Orphean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains.
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Orpheus
Definition:
(n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(2) By naming a canvas "Bacchus" or "Orpheus" he didn't so much imply a narrative but use the resonance of the name and its residual impact in the viewer's mind to give an extra depth.
(3) When the railway workers cut through into the Roman villa, a junior engineer, Thomas Marsh, made beautiful, precise plans and illustrations of the remains, and the splendid Orpheus mosaic, in a more or less pristine state, was set duly into the wall of Keynsham station.
(4) For services to the Retail Industry and voluntary service particularly through the Orpheus Foundation.
(5) In Ovid's story abut Orpheus, the singer-poet ends up being torn limb from limb, broken apart by angry maenads.
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(7) Myth has a role, too: the stories of Persephone and Orpheus, who traveled to the underworld.
(8) Soon after leaving for Nigeria in 1957, he joined the University of Ibadan, where he not only made friends with such rising literary talent as Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, but helped launch two literary magazines, one of which was the celebrated Black Orpheus.
(9) The operas Herbert designed included Gluck's Orpheus And Euridice (Sadler's Wells, 1967), Verdi's La Forza del Destino (Paris Opera, 1977), Kurt Weill and Brecht's The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny and Mozart's Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (both at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1979) and Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask Of Orpheus (London Coliseum, 1986).