SEIKILO Ancient World Music | The Lyre of Orpheus: Return from the Underworld 🏛 𓀕 🗯 — The Song of the Lyre @SEIKILO | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Did you know that the first who went to the Underworld and came back alive was Orpheus? The lyre can tame beasts and bring tears to the emotionless. If you pair it with love, the lyre can even bring back the dead!
In this episode of our animated series, we follow Orpheus, the legendary musician, as he descends to the Underworld to bring back his loved one, Eurydice. But before he does so, he has to encounter otherworldly beasts and Pluto himself!
The lyres used for this episode's music were masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. This story, among hundreds of others, can be found in the book "The Song of the Lyre" available at luthieros.com/the_song
👀 Watch the full mini-series at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunFi1ahv3DJbIbjod3WVJBKj
⚪ Order the book at luthieros.com/the_song
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🎬 SEIKILO team
Art Direction & Concept Creation by Nikolaos Koumartzis
Script by Fotis Giantsios
Voiceover Jarrett Raymond
Animation by Hashir Ahmed
Sound design by George Ayman
Subtitles by Feraia Nikolaou
Music by SEIKILO Affiliate Artists
Song selection by Evagoras Bekiaris and Nikolaos Koumartzis
Special thanks to Evagoras Bekiaris and Feraia Nikolaou for their participation in the initial stage of the sound design.
📃 ✍🏼 Transcript
Orpheus & Eurydice
It was a lovely day when Orpheus, son of King Oegreus and the muse Calliope, was to wed his beloved, the nymph Eurydice. So happily danced Eurydice with her sisters that she did not watch her step and placed her foot on the head of a venomous snake!
Gone was lovely, Eurydice. And Orpheus, the greatest of musicians, wept bitterly at her side. Weeping, he took up his lyre and played songs so mournful and beautiful that all the mortals, nymphs, and deities wept with him, and the whole world knew of his sorrow.
Taking the gods' advice, Orpheus, armed only with his lyre, descended to the Underworld to ask terrible Hades and sweet Persephone to let her return with him. The gates were guarded by the three-headed giant dog, the terrifying Cerberus. But Orpheus’ music was so sweet that he lulled the beast to sleep and passed undisturbed.
“Who alive dares to enter the Underworld? What do you seek?” asked Hades.
““I seek Eurydice, my wife,” said Orpheus, “who was taken from the world of the living before her allotment of years. And I will play for you the sweetest song of all time if you but allow her to return to the sunlit lands with me”.
And so sweet was the song Orpheus played that Hades was moved, and Persephone shed tears, and even the dead forgot their sorrow for a while.
“Very well,” said Hades. “But you shall not look upon her before you exit the threshold, lest she returns to the world of the dead.”
And Orpheus closed his eyes and only heard her footsteps behind him as they made their way up. But shades tread lightly, and he could hear her footsteps no more. Had the gods fooled him? And as he passed the threshold he turned, looking upon his beloved, still on the other side. And having broken the terms, she couldn’t follow, grasping for him in vain as she fell back into the world of the dead…
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Did you know that the first who went to the Underworld and came back alive was Orpheus? The lyre can tame beasts and bring tears to the emotionless. If you pair it with love, the lyre can even bring back the dead!
In this episode of our animated series, we follow Orpheus, the legendary musician, as he descends to the Underworld to bring back his loved one, Eurydice. But before he does so, he has to encounter otherworldly beasts and Pluto himself!
The lyres used for this episode's music were masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family. This story, among hundreds of others, can be found in the book "The Song of the Lyre" available at luthieros.com/the_song
👀 Watch the full mini-series at youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMWkAbRJunFi1ahv3DJbIbjod3WVJBKj
⚪ Order the book at luthieros.com/the_song
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🎬 SEIKILO team
Art Direction & Concept Creation by Nikolaos Koumartzis
Script by Fotis Giantsios
Voiceover Jarrett Raymond
Animation by Hashir Ahmed
Sound design by George Ayman
Subtitles by Feraia Nikolaou
Music by SEIKILO Affiliate Artists
Song selection by Evagoras Bekiaris and Nikolaos Koumartzis
Special thanks to Evagoras Bekiaris and Feraia Nikolaou for their participation in the initial stage of the sound design.
📃 ✍🏼 Transcript
Orpheus & Eurydice
It was a lovely day when Orpheus, son of King Oegreus and the muse Calliope, was to wed his beloved, the nymph Eurydice. So happily danced Eurydice with her sisters that she did not watch her step and placed her foot on the head of a venomous snake!
Gone was lovely, Eurydice. And Orpheus, the greatest of musicians, wept bitterly at her side. Weeping, he took up his lyre and played songs so mournful and beautiful that all the mortals, nymphs, and deities wept with him, and the whole world knew of his sorrow.
Taking the gods' advice, Orpheus, armed only with his lyre, descended to the Underworld to ask terrible Hades and sweet Persephone to let her return with him. The gates were guarded by the three-headed giant dog, the terrifying Cerberus. But Orpheus’ music was so sweet that he lulled the beast to sleep and passed undisturbed.
“Who alive dares to enter the Underworld? What do you seek?” asked Hades.
““I seek Eurydice, my wife,” said Orpheus, “who was taken from the world of the living before her allotment of years. And I will play for you the sweetest song of all time if you but allow her to return to the sunlit lands with me”.
And so sweet was the song Orpheus played that Hades was moved, and Persephone shed tears, and even the dead forgot their sorrow for a while.
“Very well,” said Hades. “But you shall not look upon her before you exit the threshold, lest she returns to the world of the dead.”
And Orpheus closed his eyes and only heard her footsteps behind him as they made their way up. But shades tread lightly, and he could hear her footsteps no more. Had the gods fooled him? And as he passed the threshold he turned, looking upon his beloved, still on the other side. And having broken the terms, she couldn’t follow, grasping for him in vain as she fell back into the world of the dead…
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