Orpheus and Eurydice

The battles and the slaying of beasts and monsters of myth glorified Greek heroes. Warriors with shield and sword in hand, stories of their victory on the battlefield. But Orpheus a hero of other Greek stories of great warriors, he was with Jason and the Argonauts playing his lyre to drown out the sirens. His myth about the loss of his wife and how it relates to the natural, social, and psychological levels that often related to by the Greeks.

The Natural, of the story of Orpheus is related to his music. He plays a tune from his lyre that makes nature and its inhabitancy flow to the tune in which he play. The wind, the rocks and the rivers flow down stream, roll down hill and cool the air. His music calms man and drowns the sound of the sirens from the seducing call of their songs. His music was how the Greeks explained the harmony and tranquility of the world.

The social relevant of Orpheus is best described as his roll of a husband. To show his devotion to his wife, which ties him to family and family values. This might have been a way to promote moral in Greek society. His music is of course entertainment of music and theater of Greek culture. His lyre, which is a popular instrument in Greek myths, puts him in what would be the center and peek of Greek music.

Psychological of Orpheus is comparing to ones self and if you relate to him and his personality. Orpheus is a kind soul with the passion he has from his stolen bride. He has such a devotion to bring her back that he brave the trip to Hades on his own. He charmed the three-headed sentinel to a deep sleep, calmed the Furies to a low hum instead of their violent shrieks for blood. He barded with Hades for his bride, only to have lost her at the exit of the underworld, vanished from a mist to dust in the wind, and with her last words to him would be left on the wind to haunt him for his remaining days. This shows how powerless man is to changing the fatal bounds of death, that even how loyal and loving he’s life was ended with sadness. Compared to man and the desires they have and the extent we will go to have them.

The Greeks even if not knowing it at the time, had great and many stories that helped them explain the three levels natural, social and the psychological to every day life with deep incite to personal feeling and behavior of men and our emotions. The stories of the myths and philosophies that wrought them are a part of both the ancient and the present world.