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Orpheus, son of the Muse Calliope, married Eurydice. He was a brilliant magician. On their wedding day, Eurydice was bitten by a snake and died. Orpheus traveled to the Underworld to get her back, playing music so that Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the Underworld, would let him past. His music also swayed Persephone, Queen of the Dead, who persuaded her husband Hades to let Eurydice go back with Orpheus. Hades agreed, but only if Orpheus would not look back at her until they reached the surface. Orpheus agreed, but he looked back when they were almost there, and Eurydice was taken back to the Underworld. Orpheus grieved, and he was eventually killed by a band of Maenads, female followers of Dionysus who were often drunk and insane.

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