Eurydice

'"[3] Eurydice was the Auloniad wife of musician Orpheus,[4][5][6] who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow.

Distraught, Orpheus played and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and deities wept and told him to travel to the Underworld to retrieve her, which he gladly did.

[8] Other ancient sources, however, speak of Orpheus's visit to the underworld in a more negative light; according to Phaedrus in Plato's Symposium,[9] the infernal deities only "presented an apparition" of Eurydice to him.

"[12] The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been depicted in a number of works by artists, including Titian, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and Corot.

The myth has been retold in operas by Jacopo Peri, Monteverdi, Charpentier, Gluck, Yevstigney Fomin, Harrison Birtwistle, and Matthew Aucoin.