. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. aw the face of looked again upon his wife brought back from the grip ofDeath by Heracles, the son of Zeus. And then a deeper joythan he had ever known came to Admetus. Once more his wifewas with him, and Admetus the friend of Apollo and the friendof Heracles had all that he cared to have. VI. HOW ORPHEUS THE MINSTREL WENTDOWN TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD ANY were the minstrels who, in the earlydays, went through the world, telling tomen the stories of the gods, telling of theirwars and their births. Of all these min-strels n
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. aw the face of looked again upon his wife brought back from the grip ofDeath by Heracles, the son of Zeus. And then a deeper joythan he had ever known came to Admetus. Once more his wifewas with him, and Admetus the friend of Apollo and the friendof Heracles had all that he cared to have. VI. HOW ORPHEUS THE MINSTREL WENTDOWN TO THE WORLD OF THE DEAD ANY were the minstrels who, in the earlydays, went through the world, telling tomen the stories of the gods, telling of theirwars and their births. Of all these min-strels none was so famous as Orpheuswho had gone with the Argonauts; nonecould tell truer things about the gods, forhe himself was half divine. But a great grief came to Orpheus, a grief that stopped hissinging and his playing upon the lyre. His young wife Eurydicewas taken from him. One day, walking in the garden, she wasbitten on the heel by a serpent, and straightway she went downto the world of the dead. Then everything in this world was dark and bitter for the. ,J V: y^ l WMMlj^M [/ 1 i ~^-^ <n \^r _^-— ^^-^—^fesr-— THE HEROES OF THE QUEST 269 minstrel Orpheus; sleep would not come to him, and for himfood had no taste. Then Orpheus said: I will do that whichno mortal has ever done before; I will do that which even theimmortals might shrink from doing: I will go down into theworld of the dead, and I will bring back to the living and to thelight my bride Eurydice. Then Orpheus went on his way to the valley of Acherusia whichgoes down, down into the world of the dead. He would neverhave found his way to that valley if the trees had not shownhim the way. For as he went along Orpheus played upon hislyre and sang, and the trees heard his song and they were movedby his grief, and with their arms and their heads they showedhim the way to the deep, deep valley of Acherusia. Down, down by winding paths through that deepest and mostshadowy of all valleys Orpheus went. He came at las
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