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Eurydice

wife of Orpheus in Greek mythology, from Latinized form of Greek Eurydike, literally "wide justice," from eurys "wide" (see eury-) + dike "right, custom, usage, law; justice" (cognate with Latin dicere "to show, tell;" see diction).

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Eurydice (Ruhl play)

Eurydice is a 2003 play by Sarah Ruhl which retells the myth of Orpheus from the perspective of Eurydice, his wife. The story focuses on Eurydice's choice to return to earth with Orpheus or to stay in the underworld with her father (a character created by Ruhl). Ruhl made several changes to the original myth's story-line. The most noticeable of these changes was that in the myth Orpheus succumbs to his desires and looks back at Eurydice, while in Ruhl's version Eurydice calls out to Orpheus (causing him to look back) perhaps in part because of her fear of reentering the world of the living and perhaps as a result of her desire to remain in the land of the dead with her father. Ruhl's script has been explicitly written so as to be a playground for the designer of the sets.

Eurydice (disambiguation)

In Greek mythology, Eurydice is the wife of the musician Orpheus.

Eurydice or Euridice may also refer to:

Eurydice (genus)

Eurydice is a genus of isopod crustaceans. It includes the following species:

  • Eurydice acuticauda Bruce, 1981
  • Eurydice affinis Hansen, 1905
  • Eurydice agilis Jones, 1971
  • Eurydice akiyamai Nunomura, 1981
  • Eurydice arabica Jones, 1974
  • Eurydice barnardi Bruce & Soares, 1996
  • Eurydice binda Bruce, 1986
  • Eurydice bowmani George & Longerbeam, 1998
  • Eurydice caudata Richardson, 1899
  • Eurydice cavicaudata Jones, 1971
  • Eurydice chelifer Jones, 1971
  • Eurydice clymeneia Monod, 1926
  • Eurydice convexa Richardson, 1900
  • Eurydice czerniavsky Bacescu, 1948
  • Eurydice dollfusi Monod, 1930
  • Eurydice elongata Moreira, 1972
  • Eurydice emarginata Moreira, 1972
  • Eurydice grimaldii Dollfus, 1888
  • Eurydice humilis Stebbing, 1910
  • Eurydice indicis Eleftheriou & Jones, 1976
  • Eurydice inermis Hansen, 1890
  • Eurydice inornata Jones, 1971
  • Eurydice kensleyi Bruce & Soares, 1996
  • Eurydice littoralis (Moore, 1901)
  • Eurydice longiantennata Nunomura & Ikehara, 1985
  • Eurydice longicornis (Studer)
  • Eurydice longipes Jones, 1971
  • Eurydice longispina Jones, 1969
  • Eurydice lusitanica Jones & Pierpoint, 1997
  • Eurydice mauritanica de Grave & Jones, 1991
  • Eurydice minya Bruce, 1986
  • Eurydice naylori Jones & Pierpoint, 1997
  • Eurydice nipponica Bruce & Jones, 1981
  • Eurydice orientalis Hansen, 1890
  • Eurydice paxilli Schotte & Kensley, 2005
  • Eurydice peraticis Jones, 1974
  • Eurydice personata Kensley, 1987
  • Eurydice piperata Menzies & Frankenberg, 1966
  • Eurydice pontica (Czerniavsky, 1868)
  • Eurydice pulchra Leach, 1815
  • Eurydice racovitzai Bacescu, 1949
  • Eurydice rotundicauda Norman, 1906
  • Eurydice saikaiensis Nunomura, 2008
  • Eurydice spenceri Bruce, 1981B
  • Eurydice spinigera Hansen, 1890
  • Eurydice subtruncata Tattersall, 1921
  • Eurydice tarti Bruce, 1986
  • Eurydice truncata (Norman, 1868)
  • Eurydice valkanovi Bacescu, 1949
  • Eurydice woka Bruce, 1986
  • Eurydice wyuna Bruce, 1986
Eurydice (Anouilh play)

Eurydice is a play by French writer Jean Anouilh, written in 1941. The story is set in the 1930s, among a troupe of travelling performers. It combines skepticism about romance in general and the intensity of the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice with an other-worldly mysticism. The result is a heavily ironic modern retelling of the classical Orpheus myth.

Eurydice

__NOTOC__ In Greek mythology, Eurydice (; , Eurydikē) was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of music, prophecy, and light, who also drove the sun chariot, 'adopting' the power as god of the Sun from the primordial god Helios). She was the wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.

Eurydice (wife of Antipater II of Macedon)

Eurydice (, born c. 312 BC or earlier-after 287 BC) was a Greek Princess who was of Macedonian and Thessalian descent.

She was the first daughter and second child born to the diadochus who was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia, Lysimachus from his first wife the Queen consort, Nicaea of Macedon. Eurydice had one older brother called Agathocles and a younger sister called Arsinoe. Her paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon who reigned 359 BC-336 BC, while her maternal grandfather was the powerful Regent Antipater.

Eurydice was named in honor of her maternal aunt Eurydice of Egypt, another daughter of Antipater, who was one of the wives of the Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter. The name Eurydice, is a dynastic name of the Argead dynasty (see Eurydice-Historical women). The name also reveals her relations to the Argead dynasty as her maternal grandfather and her maternal great-uncle Cassander were distant collateral relatives to the Argead dynasty.

At an unknown date, Lysimachus renamed the city Smyrna to Eurydiceia in honor of Eurydice, an innovation that did not last long. Lysimachus issued coinage depicting Eurydice on the obverse as a veiled woman, although Eurydice never owned nor had any control of the city. Little is known on her life prior to marrying.

Lysimachus gave Eurydice to marry her maternal cousin Antipater, the son of the rulers of Macedonia, Cassander and Thessalonike. Eurydice’s marriage to Antipater, thereby extended into the next generation the historical link between Thrace and Macedonia. In her life, Eurydice was a participant in the never ending conflict over control over Macedonia in the generations after the death of Alexander the Great.

Antipater was co-King of Macedonia from 297 BC-294 BC and through marriage, she became a Queen consort. On the death of her maternal uncle, Thessalonike divided the kingdom into two: one part to be ruled by Antipater’s oldest brother Alexander V and his wife Lysandra and the other part to be ruled by Antipater and Eurydice. Alexander V wanted the whole kingdom to rule for himself and had his mother killed.

Alexander V appealed to Demetrius I Poliorcetes for help. When Demetrius I arrived with his troops he had Alexander V murdered and drove out Antipater and Eurydice out of Macedonia. Demetrius I then made himself master of Macedonia. Eurydice and Antipater returned to her father and his wife Arsinoe II. Lysimachus made peace with Demetrius I, which resulted in Antipater quarrelling with Lysimachus about his Macedonian inheritance and Lysimachus had put Antipater to death. Eurydice siding with her cousin-husband was put into prison by her father and probably died there.

Usage examples of "eurydice".

We are the descendants of the initiators of Project Eurydice, the project from which there shall never be a looking-back situation.

Project Eurydice, a tale so incredible that the seven friends sat in amazed silence.

They were too deeply embroiled in Project Eurydice, whatever that was.

Project Eurydice, for the Central they worshipped, blind to the fact that it no longer existed.

Lang, and discuss some ideas I have about Orpheus fiddling Eurydice out of the infernal regions.

Theirs is the Book of the River of Life, to read Leaf by leaf by reapers of long-sown seed: There doth our shoot up to light from a spiriting sane Stand as a tree whereon numberless clusters grow: Legible there how the heart, with its one false move Cast Eurydice pallor on all we love.

But never came response, Eurydice,-- The flowers were dumb, O lost Eurydice!

Thus do I come to thee, Eurydice, Through waving water-floods, Eurydice, I come, I come, beloved Eurydice!

Project planned to use the solitary collapsar above the constellation Harpy as a port for the Eurydice.

In the first, the Eurydice would proceed to the collapsar in the constellation Harpy, chosen as a place for concealment and temporal maneuvers.

Eurydice was to remain above the collapsar in nontime, or in a time different from the ordinary.

Eurydice in her collapsar port, the flight of the Hermes will take a couple of weeks.

Eurydice Spragg I felt more and more convinced that Simon Clode was in bad hands and that Mrs.