Orpheus the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy – "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Orpheus" (1950) and "Testament of Orpheus" (1959) – was filmed over thirty years, and is based in many ways on the story. Philip Glass adapted the second film into the chamber opera "Orphée" (1991), part of a homage triptych to Cocteau. Nikos Nikolaidis' 1975 film "Evrydiki BA 2O37" is an innovative perspective on the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice. Dino Buzzati adapted the Orpheus motif in his graphic novel "Poem Strip" (1969). Neil Gaiman depicts
Pseudo-Orpheus Pseudo-Orpheus "This article is about the poem known as Pseudo-Orpheus, not about the term "Pseudo-Orpheus" as it is applied to the unknown writer of other works falsely attributed to Orpheus." Pseudo-Orpheus is the name of a poetic text, preserved only in quotations by various Christian writers, which has a complex history. Pseudo-Orpheus appears in multiple recensions (versions created over time). The poem presents the legendary Greek figure Orpheus as giving a poetic speech to his son, Musaeus, identified as the biblical Moses, passing on to him hidden wisdom he learned in Egypt. It presents a monotheistic view of God, whom,