How Does Eurydice Die?

Chloe Bennett
Chloe Bennett
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Marriage to Orpheus, Death and Afterlife Eurydice Was the Auloniad Wife of Musician Orpheus, Who Loved Her Dearly; on Their Wedding Day, He Played Joyful Songs...

How Does Eurydice Die?

Marriage to Orpheus, death and afterlife
Eurydice was the Auloniad wife of musician Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, Aristaeus
Aristaeus
A minor god in Greek mythology, attested mainly by Athenian writers, Aristaeus (/ærɪˈstiːəs/; Greek: Ἀρισταῖος Aristaios), was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping; he was the son of the huntress Cyrene and Apollo.
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saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a viper, was bitten, and died instantly.

How did Eurydice die in Orpheus?

Orpheus, singer, musician and poet, carrying a lyre on his shoulder, had recently married Eurydice, but on the day of their wedding, 'in the very bloom of her life', she was bitten by a viper and died of its venom. Distraught with grief, Orpheus descended into the underworld determined to restore her to mortality.

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Why did Eurydice die of a snake bite?

According to the retelling of her tale in Sandman, on the day of her wedding, Eurydice was assaulted by the drunken satyr, Aristaeus. When she fled from him, she stumbled into a nest of snakes and died from snakebite.

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