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Harp of Orpheus

Objects · Myth & story

The named lyre of Orpheus in Greek story, said to move stone and beast. Not Uaithne, and not a generic lyre.

Also known as Lyre of Orpheus

Hellenic religion

  • Harp of Orpheus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells Orpheus’s lyre in the underworld and after his death. Named instrument of that cycle, not a generic harp and not an Orphic-liturgy handbook the Atlas does not hold.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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