The Mask of Orpheus Orpheus must travel through is given a symbolic name. At the start of this act, time is moving backwards: Orpheus travels back out of and into the Underworld, and Euridice dies once more. Then time moves forwards as Orpheus leaves the Underworld again. One version of the Orpheus story is that he is then killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus, while another is that he is dismembered by the women of Dionysus. Orpheus then becomes the subject of a cult and an oracle. Time flows backwards once more, and Orpheus' death is acted out again, and the opera ends
The House of Hades Tartarus at Barnes & Noble. A paperback edition containing the short stories "The Crown of Ptolemy" and "The Sword of Hades" was launched in the United States on March 31, 2015. "The House of Hades" sold over 350,000 copies during the first week, 26% more than "The Mark of Athena" during a comparable period. Upon release, the book ranked 1 on "The New York Times" bestseller list, "USA Today"s bestseller list, "The Globe and Mail" bestseller list and "The Wall Street Journal" bestseller list, and was the seventh-bestselling book on Amazon and fifth in the Nielsen BookScan. The novel received