5099 x 3471 px | 43,2 x 29,4 cm | 17 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
13. Juli 2014
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Dieses Bild kann kleinere Mängel aufweisen, da es sich um ein historisches Bild oder ein Reportagebild handel
The figure shown among wild beasts here is the mythical Orpheus playing his cithara/lyre. The mosaic decorated a wall in the house now called "House of Orpheus" at Pompeii, a town south of Rome on the Bay of Naples that was destroyed in the A.D. 79 eruption of Vesuvius. In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a famed Thracian bard whose lyre music charmed even the wildest of animals and even plants, trees, and rocks. The son of the Muse Calliope, he married the nymph Eurydice after taking part in the Argonaut expedition. After a snake killed her, Orpheus went to Hades (the Underworld) to fetch her. Charmed by his music, the gods freed her (seen in this 1917 illustration), but on the condition that he not look at her until he reached the upper world. As he neared the upper world, he looked back and, as a result, she vanished from his grasp back to the Underworld.
