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How did the famous singer Orpheus die?

When the god Dionysus came to Thrace, Orpheus denied him honors, and the vengeful god sent his mad companions, the maenads, to him. They first waited until their husbands entered the temple of Apollo, whose priest was Orpheus, and then, seizing the weapons left at the temple doors, burst inside, killed their husbands and, in a wild fury, tore Orpheus to pieces, scattering parts of his body everywhere. They threw the head into the river, which washed it out to sea. In the end, the head of Orpheus was nailed to the island of Lesvos, where she was buried in a cave - there she began to prophesy and work miracles.

With tears in their eyes, the Muses collected the remains of Orpheus and buried them at the foot of Mount Olympus - since then, the nightingales sing there sweeter than anywhere else in the world. The shadow of Orpheus descended into the kingdom of Hades, where she reunited with Eurydice. The maenads tried to wash off Orpheus' blood in the Helicon River, but the river went deep underground to avoid involvement in the murder.

The Olympian gods (except Dionysus and Aphrodite) condemned the murder of Orpheus, and Dionysus managed to save the life of the maenads only by turning them into oaks, firmly rooted into the ground.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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