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 of Thebes Eurydice of Thebes In Greek mythology, Eurydice (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη, "Eὐrudíkē" "wide justice", derived from "ευρυς eurys" "wide" and "δικη dike" "justice) sometimes called Henioche, was the wife of Creon, a king of Thebes. Eurydice was probably the mother of Creon's five children: Menoeceus (Megareus), Lycomedes, Haemon, Megara and Pyrrha. She appears briefly in Sophocles' "Antigone" (as an "archetypal grieving, saddened mother" and an older counterpart to Antigone), to kill herself after learning, from a messenger, that her son Haemon and his betrothed, Antigone, have both committed suicide. She thrusts a sword into her heart and curses Creon for