perseus went to the underworld to save his wife.
perseus went to the underworld to save his wife.
who went to the underworld to save his wife?
perseus
orpheus, a poet and musician that had almost supernatural abilities to move anyone to his music, descended to the underworld as a living mortal to retrieve his dead wife eurydice after she was bitten by a poisonous snake on their wedding day. with his lyre-playing skills, he was able to put a spell on the guardians of the underworld and move them with his music. with his beautiful voice he was able to convince hades and persephone to allow him and his wife to return to the living. the rulers of the underworld agreed, but under one condition – eurydice would have to follow behind orpheus and he could not turn around to look at her. once orpheus reached the entrance, he turned around, longing to look at his beautiful wife, only to watch as his wife faded back into the underworld. he was forbidden to return to the underworld a second time and he spent his life playing his music to the birds and the mountains.
greek underworld
back at the manor, prue and piper barricade the doors, and prue confesses to piper that she is scared. when prue tells piper about what could happen, she hears a gunshot. when she looks down at piper, she sees that piper has been shot from a rifle used by the crazed wiccan fanatic alice. prue then rushes to her car with piper in her arms and cries out for leo. she realizes that she has to drive to the hospital because leo is in the underworld and he cannot hear her calling. when several people block the driveway, prue telekinetically sends them flying through the air. when she arrives at the hospital, dr. griffiths and his team race to save piper's life. despite all their efforts, piper dies and a grief-stricken prue orders all of the doctors to get out of the room. in the underworld, cole comes back from seeing the source and tells leo and phoebe about the proposal because it is the only way to save one of her sisters. back at the hospital, the swat team arrive, and prue still furious about losing piper, uses her powers and fighting skills against them, and locks herself in the room, just as leo orbs in to see his wife has died. he then orbs back to the underworld to confirm that piper was the sister that died, and phoebe agrees to stay in the underworld to save piper's life. cole then tells the source, but when he leaves, the source tells his hit-man to kill phoebe and detain cole. just as the swat team are about to shoot prue, time is reversed to the sisters' first encounter with shax at the manor. with phoebe trapped in the underworld, shax is able to kill dr. griffiths by sending him through a window, and prue and piper are left for dead.
all hell breaks loose (charmed)