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Inhabiting what the ancients considered the fringes of the civilized world, associated with the barbarian Thracians as much as with the Greeks, Orpheus embodies something of the strangeness of poetry in the world, the mystery of its power over us, and the troubling intrusiveness of its sympathy for the emotions that we cannot always afford.
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On the one hand, Orpheus embodies the ability of art, poetry, language—"rhetoric and music"—to triumph over death; the creative power of art allies itself with the creative power of love. On the other hand, the myth can symbolize the failure of art before the ultimate necessity, death.
Poetry itself, through its identification with a singerhero who suffers, dies, and is reborn, participates in the diurnal (and by metonymy the seasonal) alternation of life and death. The pattern is a very old one. It can be traced back to the shepherd-kings and singers of the ancient Near East such as Tammuz, Enkidu, and David and then recurs with a more self-conscious reference to the power of poetry and art, in figures like the dying Daphnis of Theocritus' First Idyll or the dead and resurrected Daphnis of Virgil's Fifth Eclogue.
"No longer, Orpheus, will you lead the oaks under your spell nor the rocks nor the herds of beasts that obey their own laws. No longer will you put to sleep the roar of the winds nor the hail nor the swirl of snowflakes nor the crashing sea. For you have perished, and the Muses, daughters of Memory, have wept over you, and most of all your mother, Calliope. Why do we wail over sons who have died when not even the gods have the power to keep Hades from their children?"
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A homosexual Orpheus perhaps reflects a view of art as pure "artifice," defying the laws of natural reproduction. This relation between art and nature is what one would expect of the Hellenistic poets, with their stress on the importance and independence of art and their programmatic selfconsciousness about artifice as an essential component of art.
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"The ancient wisdom of the Greeks, as seems likely, was wholly given over to music. Because of this they judged Apollo the most musical and most skilful of the gods, and Orpheus the most musical and skilful of the demigods."
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