Crossword-Solution: ORPHEUS 7 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Orpheus n. The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope,
and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance
beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

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ORPHEUS anagram SHOREUP, UPHROES, UPSHORE

We have 29 clues for the answer “ORPHEUS”

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He tried to bring Eurydice back from Hades 1 answer
{/Hadestown/} protagonist 1 answer
when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed 1 answer
Traveler to Hades to rescue Eurydice 1 answer
Traveler to Hades entryway 1 answer
The father of songs, according to Pindar 1 answer
THRACIAN musician 1 answer
Son of Calliope 1 answer
Mythical musician 1 answer
Mythical descender 1 answer
Lyre player who could charm all living things 1 answer
Lover of Eurydice, in myth 1 answer
Lover of Eurydice 1 answer
Legendary Greek musician 1 answer
Husband of Eurydice 1 answer
He married Eurydice 1 answer
Eurydice's lover 1 answer
Eurydice's beloved 1 answer
EURIDICE, husband of 1 answer
Classical lyrist 1 answer
Apollo taught him how to play the lyre 1 answer
Legendary Greek musician who ventured into the underworld for his lost love 1 answer
"___ in the Underworld" (Offenbach opera) 1 answer
Stravinsky/Balanchine ballet 2 answers
POETRY, father of 2 answers
Mythological lyrist 2 answers
Mythical lyre player 2 answers
Eurydice's husband 2 answers
EURYDICE, husband of 2 answers
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Sentences with ORPHEUS (5)

Eins, zwei, drei, vier_.” He played through Orpheus’ lament, then pushed back his cuffs with awakening interest and nodded at Thea.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Isn’t that so, my lord?” But what Lord Grenville thought of this matter, or to what reflections this homely tirade of Lady Portarles led the Comtesse de Tournay, remained unspoken, for the curtain had just risen on the third act of _Orpheus_, and admonishments to silence came from every part of the house.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
And, above all, there is this difference between resisting this and a purely brute or natural force, that I can resist this with some effect; but I cannot expect, like Orpheus, to change the nature of the rocks and trees and beasts.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1993
There he saw the soul which had once been Orpheus choosing the life of a swan out of enmity to the race of women, hating to be born of a woman because they had been his murderers; he beheld also the soul of Thamyras choosing the life of a nightingale; birds, on the other hand, like the swan and other musicians, wanting to be men.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Assume thy greatness, for the time draws nigh, Dear child of gods, great progeny of Jove! See how it totters- the world's orbed might, Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound, All, see, enraptured of the coming time! Ah! might such length of days to me be given, And breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds, Nor Thracian Orpheus should out-sing me then, Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope, And Linus fair Apollo.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008

Quotes with ORPHEUS (3)

Love is the unfathomable ground that is hidden in darkness, but the resolution is the triumphant victor who, like Orpheus, fetches the infatuation of falling in love to the light of day, for the resolution is the true form of love, the true explanation and transfiguration.
Soren Kierkegaard Either/Or, Part I
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.
Meghan O'Rourke
We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
George Steiner Errata: An Examined Life
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 20 times in crossword archives (1972–2022).