Eurydice the basis of a play by Sarah Ruhl. It inspired the 1959 film "Black Orpheus" by Marcel Camus. The myth also inspired the American playwright Tennessee Williams' 1957 drama "Orpheus Descending". Other uses include: Eurydice In Greek mythology, Eurydice (; , "Eurydikē" "wide justice", derived from "ευρυς eurys" "wide" and "δικη dike" "justice”) was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo. She was the wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music. Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful
Greek mythology and she burst forth from his head—fully-grown and dressed for war. The earliest Greek thought about poetry considered the theogonies to be the prototypical poetic genre—the prototypical "mythos"—and imputed almost magical powers to it. Orpheus, the archetypal poet, also was the archetypal singer of theogonies, which he uses to calm seas and storms in Apollonius' "Argonautica", and to move the stony hearts of the underworld gods in his descent to Hades. When Hermes invents the lyre in the "Homeric Hymn to Hermes", the first thing he does is sing about the birth of the gods. Hesiod's "Theogony" is not only