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
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