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Peggy Reynolds continues a week looking at the Orpheus myth.
After the death of Eurydice, Orpheus was so miserable that he visited the realm of the dead to get her back. Even the ferryman Charon, the dog Cerberus, and the three judges of the dead were charmed by the sound of his music.

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