. grave. His head was thrown into theHebrus, down which it rolled into the sea, andwas borne across to Lesbos, where the grave inwhich it was interred was shown at lyre was also said to have been carried toLesbos ; and both traditions are simply poeticalexpressions of the historical fact that Lesboswas the first great seat of the music of the lyre :indeed Antissa itself was the birthplace of Terp-ander, the earliest historical musician. Theastronomers taught that the lyre of Orpheuswas placed by Zeus among the stars, at t
. grave. His head was thrown into theHebrus, down which it rolled into the sea, andwas borne across to Lesbos, where the grave inwhich it was interred was shown at lyre was also said to have been carried toLesbos ; and both traditions are simply poeticalexpressions of the historical fact that Lesboswas the first great seat of the music of the lyre :indeed Antissa itself was the birthplace of Terp-ander, the earliest historical musician. Theastronomers taught that the lyre of Orpheuswas placed by Zeus among the stars, at theintercession of Apollo and the Muses ( ii. 7). In these legends there are somepoints which are sufficiently clear. The inven-tion of music, in connexion with the servicesof Apollo and the Muses; its first great applica-tion to the worship of the gods, which Orpheusis therefore said to have introduced ; its powerover the passions, and the importance whichthe Greeks attached to the knowledge of it, asintimately allied with the very existence of all. Orpheus. (From a mosaic.) social order—are probably the chief elementaryideas of the whole legend. But then comes inone of the dark features of the Greek religion,in which the gods envy the advancement ofman in knowledge and civilisation, and punishanyone who transgresses the bounds assignedto humanity: or the conflict was viewed, not asbetween the gods and man, but between theworshippers of different divinities: betweenApollo, the symbol of pure intellect, and Dio-nysus, the deity of the senses; hence Orpheus,the servant of Apollo, falls a victim to thejealousy of Dionysus and the fury of his wor-shippers. — Orphic Societies and the time of the first development of Greekphilosophy, societies were formed, consisting ofpersons called the followers of Orpheus (oiOp<piKoi), who, under the pretended guidance ofOrpheus, dedicated themselves to the worshipof Dionysus. They performed the rites of amystical w
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