Geração de Orpheu literature with principal function of agitating, subverting and scandalizing the Portuguese bourgeoisie and - by extension - all social conventions. The journal's name, "Orpheu" was not chosen by accident - as in Greek myth, Orpheus ("Orfeu" in Portuguese) was the musician who, to save his wife Eurydice from Hades, had to travel from the world of the living with the stipulation to not looking back. It was this metaphor that was important to the men of the Geração de Orpheu: the not looking back, the forgetting, the relinquishing of the past and the concentration of attention and force to the
Eridanos (river of Hades) with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro. Eridanos is the name that has been applied by geologists to a river which flowed where the Baltic Sea is now, a river system also known simply as the "Baltic River System". Eridanos (river of Hades) The river Eridanos or Eridanus (; , "Amber") is a river in northern Europe mentioned in Greek mythology and historiography. Hesiod, in the "Theogony," calls it "deep-eddying Eridanos" in his list of rivers, the offspring of Tethys and Oceanus. Herodotus suspects the word "Eridanos" to be essentially Greek in character, and notably forged by some