Eurydice (Ruhl play) a piece of string, and Eurydice's father reads to her from "King Lear". Orpheus sends another letter, and then resolves to go to the Underworld himself to find her. In the third movement, Orpheus arrives at the gates of the Underworld, singing a song so powerful it makes the Stones weep. The Lord of the Underworld tells him that he may take Eurydice back, but only if he does not turn around to look at her. Eurydice is then faced with the decision to either stay with her father or go back with her husband. At her father's insistence, she
Eurydice II of Macedon of her husband, with royal pomp at Aegae. Eurydice II of Macedon Eurydice (Greek: Εὐρυδίκη "Eurydike"; died 317 BC) was the Queen of Macedonia, daughter of Amyntas IV, son of Perdiccas III, and Cynane, daughter of Philip II and his first wife Audata. She was a significant person in the immediate aftermath of the death of Alexander the Great and the First and Second Wars of the Diadochi. Eurydice's birth name appears to have been Adea; the sources are silent on when it was changed to Eurydice. She was brought up by her mother Cynane, and seems to have been