The Triumph of the Second Orpheus: How Death Flees from the Victorious Dead

The dead don’t need the living; it’s the living who need the dead.

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The idea of descending into the Underworld to rescue one’s beloved is as ancient as the world itself. Very few venture there. Orpheus, the son of Apollo, loved the beautiful nymph Eurydice so much that he decided to follow her to hell and face Hades himself.

He goes down with his celestial music and accomplishes the unthinkable. After hear…