(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.
(6) PR Photograph: PR Of course Duke and Ocean are a strange construct – an oatmeal Orpheus and Eurydice for the exercise-obsessed yuppie class – but then Lululemon is a strange concept.
(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).
Thracian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ali, a mining worker of five years who previously worked as a subcontractor in Soma, but is now a coal miner in the Thracian city of Edirne, said work safety was the least important issue in Turkish mines everywhere.
(2) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(3) While Iranian and India peoples preserved their original worship in their final settlements, Indo-European tribes, including the Thracians, the Phrygians, and the Greeks, after settling in Europe and Asia Minor, abandoned their ancestral worship of Soma (Sabazios) and substituted the Semitic (alcoholic) Dionysos.
(4) However, pressure to keep Turkish interest rates competitive means that some of these ambitious ventures – including a new Bosphorus in the form of a canal that will cut the Thracian peninsula – will be harder, if not impossible, to finance.