http://journeytothesea.com/orpheus-naples/ an online magazine devoted to the study of myth Thu, 03 May 2012 05:38:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://journeytothesea.com/orpheus-naples/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Alana Abbott Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:38:57 +0000 http://journeytothesea.com/?p=2838#comment-1288 <p>Randy, I had missed this when you first posted it, so I'm glad you linked to it from Myth Cafe! I'd no idea that the possibility -- even probability -- of a successful Orpheus journey existed. If so, that puts an interesting spin on some things; I've come to the conclusion that Perseus is the only Hero to have gotten a happy ending in mortal life (Heracles got rewarded on Olympus, but his moral life was anything but filled with happy endings). Orpheus's success would say that more than one Hero did well in the mortal world, which might have interesting implications regarding those other tales. Were all Heroes so tragic in life, or did some stories give other Heroes happy endings after all?</p> Randy, I had missed this when you first posted it, so I’m glad you linked to it from Myth Cafe! I’d no idea that the possibility — even probability — of a successful Orpheus journey existed. If so, that puts an interesting spin on some things; I’ve come to the conclusion that Perseus is the only Hero to have gotten a happy ending in mortal life (Heracles got rewarded on Olympus, but his moral life was anything but filled with happy endings). Orpheus’s success would say that more than one Hero did well in the mortal world, which might have interesting implications regarding those other tales. Were all Heroes so tragic in life, or did some stories give other Heroes happy endings after all?

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