The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue

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    The marriage of Orpheus, the greatest of all poets and musicians, to Eurydice, a wood nymph, was heralded as the perfect union. Anyone could tell the couple was deeply in love. So when their wedding ceremony ended in Eurydice's untimely death, Orpheus had no choice but to venture into the underworld to try to reclaim his lost love. Brendan Pelsue shares the tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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  • @TEDEd
    @TEDEd  6 ปีที่แล้ว +4281

    Thank you so much to everyone who has started supporting our mission on Patreon! You asked for more myths, and here they are! If you'd like to learn more about how to get involved, visit our Patreon page: bit.ly/2APSQow

    • @yasmingarcez3668
      @yasmingarcez3668 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TED-Ed That was amazing

    • @sachinsundaresann3406
      @sachinsundaresann3406 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I've never heard a story like this before, very nice work.

    • @blueissonice4566
      @blueissonice4566 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank god you guys are still making videos. I always learn so much from them, thank you!

    • @Michael-xm4ux
      @Michael-xm4ux 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Do an episode on the story of Edipussy, Atapussy, Eatapussy. I don't know how to spell but you get the idea

    • @MedatonOrtano
      @MedatonOrtano 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah, I love this myth so much.

  • @rosalie_m7305
    @rosalie_m7305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21912

    “Turning to look back at her as often as he likes” I love that

    • @cosmix4460
      @cosmix4460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +324

      Moral:Kill snakes

    • @Cleeon
      @Cleeon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Love it

    • @steampunkastronaut7081
      @steampunkastronaut7081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      @Lara SCHROEDER Poor Charon is all loneliness in his eternal servitude.

    • @ramonalzate
      @ramonalzate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@steampunkastronaut7081 WELL tbh he always has company with all the dead people he has to take back I'm pretty sure hes heard everyone life story by now

    • @ramonalzate
      @ramonalzate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Lara SCHROEDER I didnt catch that thanks

  • @blob7800
    @blob7800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9187

    Every mythology story: *do the only freakin thing that they were not supposed to do*

    • @aditithakur4692
      @aditithakur4692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      Mostly Greek

    • @TheMarkSasuke64
      @TheMarkSasuke64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@aditithakur4692 Garden of Eden as well.

    • @hahahahs
      @hahahahs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      in real life i am supposed to study but don't .......

    • @vishnu3196
      @vishnu3196 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      If they didn't it wouldn't be a mythological tale

    • @aoikemono6414
      @aoikemono6414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      There's typically some moral or life lesson to explain why something is taboo. Or if it's Greek, typically just fun nonsense.

  • @nizzletapewormlicker3350
    @nizzletapewormlicker3350 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7473

    Ellen: so I hear you want your wife back
    Orpheus: omg u didn’t
    Eurydice: *walks onto stage*
    Orpheus: *turns around*
    Eurydice: *disappears*

    • @lanyy_singzz1173
      @lanyy_singzz1173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      This made me laugh 😂

    • @Phoenix-iq8ei
      @Phoenix-iq8ei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      HSJEUSGEEH

    • @toomanypolygons7129
      @toomanypolygons7129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      What about a brand new Toyota Corolla?

    • @Emily-ox6yn
      @Emily-ox6yn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      That is is the best joke I have ever heard, big kudos

    • @multistormhawks
      @multistormhawks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@toomanypolygons7129 what about THREE TOYOTA COROLLAS!

  • @kritrom
    @kritrom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2804

    OR
    He could just be talking to her as they climb.
    "Yo you there?"
    "Yea."
    "Kay cool."

    • @yuuablewon
      @yuuablewon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +285

      He couldn’t hear her either 😞

    • @operationstarwars
      @operationstarwars 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      he could just get a mirror and look behind him... they said don't turn back to look, nothing about using a mirror :P

    • @koirvne
      @koirvne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@operationstarwars Mirrors are expensive and most of the time, it's just polished metal...

    • @jansen_music
      @jansen_music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@koirvne He is the son of Apollo so could afford it.

    • @koirvne
      @koirvne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@jansen_music Yeah... not really~ the only way I have ever read about mirrors (if you can call them that) in Greek myths is in Narcissus story and that Bronze shield thing

  • @farexe1797
    @farexe1797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6282

    Me: *about to cry after that beautiful story*
    Video: tED-ED IS A NON PROFIT ORGA-

    • @gloriak87
      @gloriak87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      lmao, honestly :')

    • @dolmaandralf3700
      @dolmaandralf3700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So true 😹

    • @eggmayonnaise325
      @eggmayonnaise325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Yep. Way to kill the mood!

    • @abhinayak1712
      @abhinayak1712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly 😂

    • @arithemuffin9363
      @arithemuffin9363 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Lol I saw this comment right as it said TED - ED IS A NON PROFIT

  • @mis_l5858
    @mis_l5858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27176

    Moral of the story: The people you love are always right behind you, even if you can’t sense them

    • @danicorrea9334
      @danicorrea9334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1294

      Just Misk wrong. The real moral is learn how to play the lyre

    • @bulabubu
      @bulabubu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      @@danicorrea9334 agree

    • @SureshKumar-nk2ok
      @SureshKumar-nk2ok 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@danicorrea9334 how to play lyre in the moral story?

    • @force3413
      @force3413 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Just misk, that's not the moral of the story lmao

    • @mis_l5858
      @mis_l5858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Force is it to play the lyre?

  • @romanimations7170
    @romanimations7170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1028

    There's another version of the story I believe where Eurydice fell and when Orpheus heard, he turned to help her. Which is far sadder, because it shows that he loved her so very much that his first instinct was to help.

    • @snaketooth0943
      @snaketooth0943 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Interesting. Thank you for sharing!

  • @LOSERWITHACAUSE
    @LOSERWITHACAUSE 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1544

    “Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”
    ― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    • @jisookim7347
      @jisookim7347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      :(((

    • @michaelscottoriginal
      @michaelscottoriginal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Thank you. Someday, this line will haunt me in a beautiful way

    • @olufemidavies2135
      @olufemidavies2135 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This comment made me check out the film and I can’t thank you enough 🙏🏾

    • @lalalazarus
      @lalalazarus ปีที่แล้ว +7

      One of the greatest movies out there

    • @isham1m1
      @isham1m1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lalalazarus couldn't agree more. it's so underrated, but maybe i like it better that way.

  • @crescent_foxx1014
    @crescent_foxx1014 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11358

    BOI SHE'S A GHOST OF COURSE YOU WOULDN'T HEAR HER FOOTSTEPS

    • @litbopeep5726
      @litbopeep5726 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      😆

    • @firebird6136
      @firebird6136 5 ปีที่แล้ว +511

      Sometimes emotions can block out reason. I’m still struggling with that problem.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      A Ghost until she comes out of the Tartarus

    • @pineapplecastella2584
      @pineapplecastella2584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hahaha exactly

    • @justabitch4671
      @justabitch4671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Saguntum-Iberian-Greek Konstantinopoli yeah because her physical body is on earth

  • @shuk0rina444
    @shuk0rina444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5535

    "please bring my gf back"
    "okay but don't turn around"
    "okay"
    **turns around**
    **she dies**
    *:O*

    • @murkthreezero6984
      @murkthreezero6984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      LMAOO

    • @WestOfLee100
      @WestOfLee100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ghosted eh screw it, ima make myself a ghost so a moody blue hair kid can shoot himself.

    • @pandablue6412
      @pandablue6412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Surprised pikachu face

    • @Sahil-bb2qw
      @Sahil-bb2qw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      gods were douchebags

    • @lioubastoupakova3770
      @lioubastoupakova3770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Life is harsh ain’t it

  • @raqueljardim5966
    @raqueljardim5966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    I've read a version in which Eurydice did not 'suddenly' fall by the bite of a snake, but rather while running from a man in the woods that wanted to ask her for directions. She was terrified of Orpheus' jealousy towards other men (probably rooted in insecurity) and ran desperately, stepping on a snake and getting bitten. Orpheus's mistake when turning his head to see her was supposed to be a parallel with her death, showing that his insecurity had (once more) made him lose his wife.

    • @KMervJr
      @KMervJr ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This just touched me deeply

    • @Maria-sv2jo
      @Maria-sv2jo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      According to Virgil and many others, that man (Aristaeus) was actually trying to assault her, and while she was running away she didn't see a snake in the grass and it bit her. Also many others think that Orpheus actually turned to look at her on purpose, so he could have something more to sing about.
      Of course, I prefer the more romantic ones haha

    • @fernandovaca7733
      @fernandovaca7733 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There is also another version where it is said that Eurydice, when she danced happily at her wedding, accidentally stepped on the snake and that is why it bit her and that Orpheus failed to not look back because the evidence said that he could only look back when they were already outside the house. underworld so he only looked back when both were already out of the underworld but unfortunately one of Eurydice's feet was still in the underworld so they failed the test.
      Therefore, many believed that this was an opportunity for Orpheus to find the love of his life since it was believed that Orpheus failed the test because he did not really love Eurydice, but Orpheus proved that he did love her when the group of women called Maenads murdered him because This rejection, his love, Orpheus did not defend himself (even though he was very strong, having been an Argonaut, if he defended himself he would surely win) and he let himself die to be reunited with Eurydice.

  • @Ash-iu4qw
    @Ash-iu4qw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    Ok but can we talk about how beautiful of a love story this was-

    • @RealisticLazerMinecraftMore
      @RealisticLazerMinecraftMore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      bro i was just here for a school essay lmaooo

    • @snaketooth0943
      @snaketooth0943 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RealisticLazerMinecraftMore was it on Greek mythology? I feel like that's probably the answer but people reference Greek mythology in other contexts a lot.

    • @RealisticLazerMinecraftMore
      @RealisticLazerMinecraftMore ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@snaketooth0943 nah it was an essay about this specific story

    • @snaketooth0943
      @snaketooth0943 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RealisticLazerMinecraftMore cool.

  • @tarrute
    @tarrute 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5711

    Nobody:
    Snake: I’m about to ruin this mans whole career.

    • @clayjohnson2618
      @clayjohnson2618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Underrated comment

    • @lyn_n5
      @lyn_n5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      fr lol

    • @Hangmen13official
      @Hangmen13official 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kept you waiting huh?

    • @vish7963
      @vish7963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      999th like!

    • @dunkey759
      @dunkey759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ruin this man's marriage

  • @coffin_qt
    @coffin_qt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9821

    Way down, Hadestown, way down under the ground.

    • @njblackbird3148
      @njblackbird3148 5 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      Lover tell me if your able whose gonna lay the wedding table? Times being what they are, hard and getting harder all the time...

    • @sofie7949
      @sofie7949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      i was looking for this

    • @ellacoleman4204
      @ellacoleman4204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      WAIT FOR ME! IM COMIIIN! WAIT IM COMIN WITH YOU

    • @jesm5698
      @jesm5698 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      AIM FOR THE HEART SHOOT TO KILL IF YOU DON’T DO IT THEN THE OTHER ONE WILL

    • @sockeye13
      @sockeye13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Hey little songbird

  • @arcticital
    @arcticital 3 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    hades: dont turn around
    Orpheus: *turns around anyways*
    Eurydice: *falls*
    Hades: _you weren't supposed to do that_

  • @kxyyd3n378
    @kxyyd3n378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +447

    The video: lets learn about the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurudice
    Hadestown fans: 👀

    • @yc2877
      @yc2877 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ME

    • @BloodInTheStrawberries
      @BloodInTheStrawberries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hades players: "Farewell, to all the earthly remains-" 👀💋👀

    • @emma-di5ly
      @emma-di5ly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sarah Ruhl fans🙋‍♀️

    • @ruzspruce9984
      @ruzspruce9984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      HELLO HELLO

  • @sheentheexplorer3859
    @sheentheexplorer3859 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6139

    Eurydice is such a beautiful name

    • @pershe4231
      @pershe4231 5 ปีที่แล้ว +260

      Only if they pronounced it correctly lol

    • @sheentheexplorer3859
      @sheentheexplorer3859 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Error 303 good point hahaha

    • @litbopeep5726
      @litbopeep5726 5 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      It rrally is! Ive been SAYING it wrong my whole life!
      I thought it was "YER-UH-DICE"
      instead of "YER-ID-UH-SEAS".

    • @Marilouwhatever
      @Marilouwhatever 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      The actual pronunciation in Greek though, would be like "He-vree-dhee-kee" 😉

    • @bbyuparinkahitanongmangyar9030
      @bbyuparinkahitanongmangyar9030 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      tangina pilipino

  • @alexandrakotanidou2814
    @alexandrakotanidou2814 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10860

    Fun Fact:
    A different version of the myth says that when he lost Eurydice the second time, Orpheus completely avoided women and focused on playing his music even more. He was so good that the men warriors of the territory would leave their weapons and listen to his music, enchanted. But their wives grew jealous cause they felt like he was depriving them of their husbands and decided to run up and kill him. They actually attacked and cut him in pieces and threw the parts of his body in the river Evros. But somehow his head magically stayed alive and he continued singing for ever.
    I'm actually taking an exam in archeology and this is one of the stories that is depicted on an attic pottery piece that I'm studying and I got too excited so I decided to share😌

    • @Marietonilamont
      @Marietonilamont 4 ปีที่แล้ว +331

      Thank you for sharing, This myth is also portrayed in the film Portrait of a Lady on Fire which I suggest you watch, if not for fun. :)

    • @hanami741
      @hanami741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      there's also an Ovid's version where Orpheus starts liking young boys too much xDD

    • @yuuji3795
      @yuuji3795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      what a chad

    • @allad7n
      @allad7n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Did you do well on the exam?

    • @alexandrakotanidou2814
      @alexandrakotanidou2814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      @@allad7n yeah I scored 9/10 and I'm glad I passed it

  • @jayceegarrido6724
    @jayceegarrido6724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    It’s an old song
    It's an old tale from way back when
    It's an old song
    And that is how it ends
    That’s how it goes
    Don't ask why, brother, don't ask how
    He could have come so close
    The song was written long ago
    And that is how it goes
    It's a sad song
    It's a sad tale
    It's a tragedy
    It's a sad song
    But we sing it anyway

    • @Aneelalala
      @Aneelalala 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who wrote this?

    • @superruff9000
      @superruff9000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Aneelalala Anais Michell

    • @sophiebarnes8717
      @sophiebarnes8717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      HADESTOWN YES PLS

    • @Tra5h_boat6368
      @Tra5h_boat6368 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Aneelalala it’s from the musical Hadestown. It takes this story and sets it in a depression era New Orleans jazz club type of setting

  • @packman852
    @packman852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    Good riddance
    To all the thieves
    To all the fools that stifled me
    They’ve come and gone
    And passed me by
    Good riddance
    To all

    • @DrSalad-ye6hr
      @DrSalad-ye6hr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Hades is amazing. SUPERGIANT knocked it out of the park yet again.

    • @axew3127
      @axew3127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello

    • @DrSalad-ye6hr
      @DrSalad-ye6hr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@axew3127 Howdy

    • @LadyAhro
      @LadyAhro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I hoped that someone had posted the lyrics

    • @sleepycrow3849
      @sleepycrow3849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hi, hon ! wat's up ?

  • @amandapatterson1331
    @amandapatterson1331 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3932

    A simple “Marco polo” would have done

    • @lily-ib6hp
      @lily-ib6hp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Amanda Patterson i- hVHDJABAK

    • @janellehale6686
      @janellehale6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      in hadestown the musical she's literally screaming at him

    • @amandapatterson1331
      @amandapatterson1331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Janelle Hale I know😂 I’m a huge fan of the musical, Twas a joke 😂😂

    • @julycingolani
      @julycingolani 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      JAJAJA

    • @calisophie3635
      @calisophie3635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Orpheus couldn’t hear her. Thats a part of the test

  • @dizzinessends
    @dizzinessends 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8274

    I always like the version where Orpheus doesn’t turn around because of doubt, but because he takes one step out into the world and turns around too quickly to greet her in his joy. Just the heart-wrench of what face he must’ve made as she got sent back to the underworld OOO

    • @nathan8750
      @nathan8750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +567

      bruhhh that's even more tragic dammm why u like this one just curious lol

    • @dizzinessends
      @dizzinessends 3 ปีที่แล้ว +676

      @@nathan8750 idk, it feels less like the fault of man as insecure and fearful and more like the fault of man as hopeful and naive... if you’re gonna be a Greek tragedy, might as well have bad things happen to hopeful people to really go full ham, right? I also like the lesson more of being precautious than of blinding trust/confidence. Either way, there’s no winning though ig...

    • @giovannafernandes5562
      @giovannafernandes5562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      That version let the tragedy even worse, but somehow amazing lol luv it

    • @nathan8750
      @nathan8750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@dizzinessends you just won me over that was a good argument I like that ending better now

    • @dizzinessends
      @dizzinessends 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@nathan8750 :)

  • @testerwulf3357
    @testerwulf3357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    4:20 for some reason this got me..he looks back as if she’d be gone any minute to check if she’s there and the animation of him running to her and embracing her is just too cute! He’s happy she’s still there.. Love like you’ll never be able to love again, if you love someone express it as much as possible as you never know when the day will come where you’ll be separated by deaths hands.

  • @cavinyeo815
    @cavinyeo815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    Fear not, best man Zagreus has made them reconciled again.

    • @scarlettskipper9352
      @scarlettskipper9352 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait, really? How?

    • @cavinyeo815
      @cavinyeo815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@scarlettskipper9352 oh I was actually referencing a recent game called "Hades", which the fictional character Zagreus (son of Hades) helps reunite the two. If you are interested, you can check out the game (one of the best game in 2020 too!) or just search it out on TH-cam.

    • @scarlettskipper9352
      @scarlettskipper9352 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cavinyeo815 Ah, okay. Thanks for info!

    • @uria3679
      @uria3679 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I reunited them 😊

    • @luisrogelio98
      @luisrogelio98 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I see you are a gamer of culture as well

  • @shannonweiss7424
    @shannonweiss7424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4119

    "It's a sad song, but we sing it anyway. Cause, here's the thing:
    To know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time."

    • @panwithoutaplan7559
      @panwithoutaplan7559 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      shannon w I learned that from a friend of mine

    • @victorym744
      @victorym744 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Lol I need therapy

    • @goodjobeli
      @goodjobeli 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      noooooooooooo

    • @micahmcjunkin4961
      @micahmcjunkin4961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I cried so hard

    • @annarose932
      @annarose932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I really don't understand that reason, for why they sing it again. Its not a story that ends and begins just like a cycle. I want to kow what Anaïs meant by that.

  • @glowworm2
    @glowworm2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4567

    I love how despite the bittersweet ending, this version ends on a happy note as Orpheaus is finally reunited with Eurydice after his own death.

    • @Glace1221
      @Glace1221 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Spoiler alert

    • @nahidbethehonoredone
      @nahidbethehonoredone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yup, I can't really call it a tragic end

    • @MegaMGstudios
      @MegaMGstudios 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@Glace1221 that's the risk you take if you read the comments before watching the video

    • @glowworm2
      @glowworm2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Brojak To be honest, this is a well known Greek myth. Also, most Greek myths tend to end tragically with a few rare exceptions.

    • @rajababy2009
      @rajababy2009 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      which motivated people for suicide after breakup not a good end

  • @avalavecchia3255
    @avalavecchia3255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    heres some time stamps for kids doing schoolwork to this.
    0:12 Orpheus and Eurydice who they are / what they are
    0:22 Eurydice death
    0:40 Orpheus decision
    0:55 Cerberus ( Three headed dog )
    1:03 Charon
    1:15 Hades And Persephone

    • @veiledprincessw
      @veiledprincessw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're a life saver!

    • @captlanc
      @captlanc หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is a 4-minute video. Why are we dumbing down children?

  • @r_s7540
    @r_s7540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I played the part of Eurydice in a school play! This is by far one of my favourite love stories. Good job TED-Ed for telling this story the way it is :)

    • @ruzspruce9984
      @ruzspruce9984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      was this play hadestown

    • @r_s7540
      @r_s7540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ruzspruce9984 It was actually The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza
      the play itself is a humorous version of Greek myths, but in order to play the role of eurydice well, I did lots of research on the story

    • @ruzspruce9984
      @ruzspruce9984 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@r_s7540 i see, congrats to you by the way!

    • @marlonmoncrieffe0728
      @marlonmoncrieffe0728 ปีที่แล้ว

      I played one of the chorus in 'Eurydice' by Sarah Ruhl!
      Yeah, it is a great love story-which is why it has been retold for thousands of years!

  • @janehervilla7143
    @janehervilla7143 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1957

    WHY DID HE HAVE TO TURN AROUND

    • @michaellewis2105
      @michaellewis2105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Because he had trust issues.

    • @juliawburn2352
      @juliawburn2352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Hades is pretty tricky, ya never know with him

    • @sinatraforeign
      @sinatraforeign 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Well Hades is the god of the underworld after all.

    • @plaguedoctor2882
      @plaguedoctor2882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Jane Hervilla It’s the thing about tragedies. It’s what makes them beautiful and heartbreaking. And everytime you just want them to please, don’t turn around, don’t go to Tebas, give Poseidon a proper sacrifice, don’t let the horse in, and so on.

    • @giannacrisha7526
      @giannacrisha7526 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      RIGHT? I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE FRUSTRATED

  • @nyah5159
    @nyah5159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2084

    **busts through door**
    WAAAAIT FOR ME
    IM COMIIIIN'
    **smashes face into table**
    WAAAIT
    I'M COMING WITH YOU
    **throws bookshelf**
    WAAAAIT FOR ME
    I'M COMIIIIN' TOO
    I'M *COMIN'* TOO

    • @aleciawilliams3692
      @aleciawilliams3692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Apollo Enjolras what is this dude plz tell me explain what that was u wrote

    • @nyah5159
      @nyah5159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      It's a musical based on this myth called Hadestown. It's soooo good

    • @aleciawilliams3692
      @aleciawilliams3692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Apollo Enjolras ohhhhhhhhhh hey u seen my channel

    • @esmedowns6146
      @esmedowns6146 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      THE RIVER STYX IS HIGH AND WIDE
      OF CINDERBLOCKS AND RAZOR WIRE
      WALLS OF IRON AND CONCRETE

    • @internetstranger5112
      @internetstranger5112 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      HADESTOWN

  • @jamesfoster5458
    @jamesfoster5458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Hades players where you at?

    • @leoryzap
      @leoryzap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      we are here

    • @LadyAhro
      @LadyAhro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yo

    • @vrndavanbennie4103
      @vrndavanbennie4103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ello

    • @KingPharaoh405
      @KingPharaoh405 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right here 🙏🏽

    • @bigyoshi9263
      @bigyoshi9263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was surprised not to see a comment like this further up

  • @bringmethatcoffee5235
    @bringmethatcoffee5235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I love one of the morals of the story: a lot of things are like his walk out of the Underworld. If you turn around right before the end it is all for naught. Like, for example, marriage. If you start to do what YOU want simply bc YOU want to do that, you risk to lose everything.

  • @rory7993
    @rory7993 4 ปีที่แล้ว +861

    I literally heard the “la la la la la la la” from epic iii when the video said “and he began to sing”

    • @joejoejoeil3165
      @joejoejoeil3165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Hadestown!!!

    • @anneliesemuttaqee821
      @anneliesemuttaqee821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I love Hadestown 😄♥️♥️I just finished listening to the musical for the first time and I love it

    • @Victoria-_
      @Victoria-_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      YESSS! HADESTOWN 😂

  • @trafalgarlaw152
    @trafalgarlaw152 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3725

    WAIT FOR ME I’M COMING TOO

    • @user-ez4or2jy3f
      @user-ez4or2jy3f 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      THIS CAME ON MY RECOMMENDED AND LIKE TH-cam KNOWS I’M A THEATRE KID [well my watch history is all musicals so]

    • @KISando
      @KISando 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      WAAAIIT I"M COMING WITHHHH YOU!!

    • @trafalgarlaw152
      @trafalgarlaw152 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Katie Jewelcrafter but there’s no turning back

    • @KISando
      @KISando 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@trafalgarlaw152 (stops singing) ... is that a joke about Eurydice?

    • @snakeofeden6667
      @snakeofeden6667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’m here because I want to go into mythological studies and not everyone is here because of Hadestown.

  • @Annesglitter
    @Annesglitter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    Me: mom, I want to watch hadestown!
    Mom: we have hadestown at home!
    Me: sounds good!
    **after watching **
    *us crying *

  • @fayesirico9455
    @fayesirico9455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    4:22 that’s so freaking wholesome I love them sm 🥺💝💖💗💕

  • @Tsukiko.97
    @Tsukiko.97 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7269

    Curiosity killed the cat.

    • @heroboystudios4684
      @heroboystudios4684 6 ปีที่แล้ว +335

      Abyssinia Empire but satisfaction brought it back

    • @farhanahmed2508
      @farhanahmed2508 6 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      Abyssinia Empire No, Schrödinger did.

    • @royalradish9412
      @royalradish9412 6 ปีที่แล้ว +236

      Doubt killed Orpheus, not curiosity

    • @jmbec62
      @jmbec62 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Are you sure? Maybe someone should check

    • @wesjales5578
      @wesjales5578 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Curiosity made the cat a technological God.

  • @xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395
    @xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2743

    They missed a very important detail about why Hades did it actually. When Orpheus comes into the palace, Hades cried “No more cheap minstrel tricks. I am a god. My rages are not to be assuaged, nor my decrees nullified. No one comes to Tartarus without being sent for. No one has before, and no one will again, when the tale is told of the torments I intend to put you to.” We all know he loved Persephone very much, and in the original myths, Orpheus actually “sang a song that conjured up a green field and a grove of trees and a slender girl painting flowers and all the light about her head, with the special clearness there was when the world had just begun. He sang of how that girl made a sight so pleasing as she played with the flowers that the birds overhead gossiped of it, and the miles underground- until the word reached even gloomy Tartarus, where a dark king heard and went up to see for himself. Orpheus sang of that king seeing the girl for the first time in a great wash of early sunlight, and what he felt when he saw that stalk-slender child in her tunic and green shoes moving with her paint pit among the flowers; the fever that ran in his blood when first he put his mighty arm about her waist, and drank her screams with his dark lips and tasted her tears; of the grief that had come upon him when he almost lost her again to her mother by Zeus’s decree; and of the joy that filled him when he learned that she had eaten of the pomegranate. Persephone was sitting at Hades’ side. She began to cry. She leaned forward and whispered to him swiftly. The king turned to Orpheus. Hades did not weep, but no one had ever seen his eyes so brilliant.” He doesn’t listen to Orpheus’s request because Orpheus asked him, nor because Orpheus moved him, but because of Persephone. This video is actually pretty far from the original myths, but that’s alright, it’s art.

    • @xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395
      @xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395 5 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      ohh, alsooo because the Erinyes (Furies) beg Hades to let her go since they are also moved

    • @dmrg345
      @dmrg345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      i am not sure..about what your story but enyways

    • @KarishmaChanglani
      @KarishmaChanglani 5 ปีที่แล้ว +386

      "original tale" I am pretty sure that there at least 20000 versions of this story since mythology gets twisted with time and there are no more "true myths" anymore.

    • @TheMsLollidella
      @TheMsLollidella 5 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      Theres probably many different versions , this being one of them, but it would make sense. Hades loved persephone so her asking him and him listening would be normal

    • @ikawangtanan
      @ikawangtanan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      I think this version was made for children. This one is so light that one would assume it's a fairytale. Greek mythology is always dark and heavy.

  • @itssofiee4631
    @itssofiee4631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Orpheus: *turns around*
    Me: damn, Orpheus u got trust issues *continues to eat popcorn*....

  • @HM-tz1or
    @HM-tz1or 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hi Ted Ed, I really love watching these kind of amazing vids of yours about myths. I hope you guys can upload more interesting videos , like about Achilles or the other stories that gives us more knowlegde, thanks!

  • @RosyRosie42
    @RosyRosie42 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4343

    The real question is: Who is nOt here from Hadestown?

    • @londongirl2768
      @londongirl2768 5 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      42RosyRosie I think this is in my recommendations because of Hadestown but I’m here because I like Greek myths so I don’t know really

    • @kristhealayson4949
      @kristhealayson4949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I was, a year ago when this vid was released and then I discovered Hadestown haha 😅

    • @wendy4324
      @wendy4324 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      42RosyRosie I’ve never heard of it

    • @rocketgarcia5245
      @rocketgarcia5245 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me

    • @coffeeandmilk5684
      @coffeeandmilk5684 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      haha im here for both hadestown and some good greek myths

  • @danoneall4013
    @danoneall4013 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3447

    Orpheus is a typical dude
    Couldn't follow simple directions

    • @apophisxo4480
      @apophisxo4480 6 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      I know right....Just like Adam and that ridiculous apple! Come on guys!

    • @kokidramdan9741
      @kokidramdan9741 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      you've won the comment section dude, lol

    • @49automedon
      @49automedon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Replace Orpheus with me, and Eurydice with food, and you have my life

    • @danoneall4013
      @danoneall4013 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +SuperSwagSenpai - I can relate.... Substitute Hershey chocolate or chocolate truffles from Costco or Sam's Club & I'm not looking back for ish!!

    • @danoneall4013
      @danoneall4013 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Ratri - ouch my man

  • @anubhavgupta1769
    @anubhavgupta1769 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just a perfect story narration with background music and the speakers voice blending perfectly with the images 💯.

  • @somebdy1173
    @somebdy1173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That freaking background music though it was sooooooo good you can't even disagree!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ClairandHerImaginaryCat
    @ClairandHerImaginaryCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +476

    The moral of the story: Ted-Ed is a non-profit

    • @vaivs7903
      @vaivs7903 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahahhahaha

    • @hi.241
      @hi.241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lmao underratedddd

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

  • @billyk8397
    @billyk8397 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2202

    I say this about every video but the animation in this is amazing

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My most favorite Ted ed animation is the " I'm bat man" video, but I digress.

  • @audreydimmel6674
    @audreydimmel6674 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my favorite myths. Lovely presentation! Thank you!

  • @magicalmilimi894
    @magicalmilimi894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Love how Hades, the video game, presented their story

  • @Paws.of.Justice
    @Paws.of.Justice 6 ปีที่แล้ว +955

    To be loved is divine
    To be sad is human .

    • @DarkSlayerTK
      @DarkSlayerTK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Thank you, that's beautiful, did you write that?or who's the owner of such wonderful phrase?

    • @asdfgh123456978
      @asdfgh123456978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Omg this is so true. Beautiful

    • @lavonnepeduca7270
      @lavonnepeduca7270 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a nice set of words

    • @recordstore2265
      @recordstore2265 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best quote

    • @direhunter7045
      @direhunter7045 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Weaver Bird hat's off my friend
      Hat's off

  • @sr.l8366
    @sr.l8366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +786

    "... a place from wich no living creature had ever returned"
    *Laughs in greek*

  • @EbrimaGaye-qj2zn
    @EbrimaGaye-qj2zn ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This guy’s music and voice was so beautiful that my dad came back from the store to listen😂😂😂

  • @nicolephilippot6672
    @nicolephilippot6672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I read a couple lines of “A thousand ships” and somehow made the connection from this story to the movie “The book of life” . I’m so proud of myself!! I never even heard about it either

  • @wyrmur727
    @wyrmur727 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2511

    If you guys are into music and this particular Greek mythology, I'm here to recommend a musical to you. It's called Hadestown and it's simply beautiful.

    • @Firedust-mi3uk
      @Firedust-mi3uk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Hadestown is my favorite musical!

    • @imaginat7856
      @imaginat7856 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I'm late to the party, but hello fellow Hadestown fan!! :D

    • @snakeoil2155
      @snakeoil2155 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      yES

    • @freilina6
      @freilina6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      THE_NATE_PROJECT Wow. I can't thank you enough for this.

    • @alexalson645
      @alexalson645 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      🎶WAAAAAAAIIIIIIT for me,
      I'm COMIIIIIIIIIIING🎶

  • @twobroschillininahottub215
    @twobroschillininahottub215 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1835

    I’m very interested in Greek and Roman mythology!! Please make more videos about it

    • @irondemon1989
      @irondemon1989 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Any Skywalker hmmm and what is it ? Ofc it is greek. Do some research at least before u comment.

    • @musiccinme
      @musiccinme 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The myth is Greek, but Orpheus himself is Thracian. Maybe that's what she meant.

    • @twobroschillininahottub215
      @twobroschillininahottub215 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Any Skywalker I said that I’m INTERESTED in it

    • @ChrisPPotatoIDC
      @ChrisPPotatoIDC 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Read Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes. Orpheus is explained in it as one of them.

    • @hemantakhatiwada874
      @hemantakhatiwada874 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      twobroschillininahottub i

  • @fayeangelie796
    @fayeangelie796 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how this video showed up when I exactly needed it

  • @hannahdawg6829
    @hannahdawg6829 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Some also say that Orpheus plays his lyre in the court of Lord Hades, entertaining the Stygian Lord of the Underworld for all eternity.

    • @johndoe5432
      @johndoe5432 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed, it is also rumored that Eurydice will lend the wayward young God Zagreus aid in his attempts to depart the Underworld. 😏

    • @hannahdawg6829
      @hannahdawg6829 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@johndoe5432 perhaps the young lord will also bring him and his love back together

  • @lydiah8101
    @lydiah8101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +610

    In the version of this story that my mother always told me, Orpheus resists temptation to look back all the way up to the world of the living. However, upon stepping out into the light, he turns around to see Eurydice, only to realise that SHE has NOT finished the climb yet, having been a few steps behind him. So she is thrown back to Hades.
    A small difference, but I've always preferred it because it strengthens the tragedy of the story, and that even though Orpheus did all as he had been instructed, there was no possibility for bringing the dead back.

    • @xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx
      @xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Idk what my name should be, okay
      So Apollo prevented his daughter?

    • @xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx
      @xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Idk what my name should be, okay
      I meant that Apollo never wanted his daughter, Eurydice married to another man.
      A typical overprotective parent would do what Apollo did.

    • @xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx
      @xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Hail
      Yes,
      so that she could become the goddess.

  • @IamJay
    @IamJay 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2588

    Amazing animation. It makes you feel interested in watching the video.

    • @EyeLean5280
      @EyeLean5280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The drawings are lovely, indeed.

    • @emeraldlair7262
      @emeraldlair7262 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      But the story is a lie in his words(he told the story wrong(well most of it )if you seen my comments(the ones saying three things wrong about the story and more(how he told it (most of it )))then you get it(if you actualy know the story)you realy will but you will get confused about this part of the comment)

  • @ay-pl6vn
    @ay-pl6vn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m so glad it ended like that. It always breaks my heart when true lovers are separated forever in stories.

  • @randomgamer6352
    @randomgamer6352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Everyone talking about Hadestown while I get this recommended again because I was listening to Good Riddance too much.

  • @musicaltheatrefan4504
    @musicaltheatrefan4504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1757

    Orpheus, don’t come on too strong-
    Orpheus: COME HOME WITH ME :D

    • @mikeygilyard5508
      @mikeygilyard5508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Who are you???

    • @bryce4395
      @bryce4395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@mikeygilyard5508 the man that's gonna marry you =)

    • @kelseysgalaxy953
      @kelseysgalaxy953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Оксана Миронян
      I’m Orpheus!

    • @LadyMythos315
      @LadyMythos315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      His he always like this?

    • @rubyrobinson8029
      @rubyrobinson8029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Yes

  • @chandniarun2595
    @chandniarun2595 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1399

    you guys are amazing ...this is art

    • @berdgar
      @berdgar 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      its been art for a few thousand years....so yep

  • @madisonsilva1069
    @madisonsilva1069 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I come back to this video at least monthly, my favourite myth and this video is just so beautiful

  • @twilightkingtron4388
    @twilightkingtron4388 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now I want to hear about the other stories.. The myths of ganymede and venus sound interesting and I find myself so interested in the way you guys tell the story. MAKE MORE !

  • @theocean1973
    @theocean1973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +849

    "...sometimes, he takes the lead, turning to look back at her, as often as he likes."
    What, I'm not crying! YOU'RE crying!

  • @Irene-ji8gh
    @Irene-ji8gh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    I love the part where he says “it was as if Orpheus’ own loss and love allowed him to see into the hearts of Gods and people everywhere,” I felt that.

  • @25kubalok
    @25kubalok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just love this myth and the animation, damn... It's just so gorgeous!!!

  • @mara_moon13
    @mara_moon13 ปีที่แล้ว

    So beautiful, it made me cry a little.

  • @cecefernandes5657
    @cecefernandes5657 6 ปีที่แล้ว +618

    Hadestown the musical.
    You're welcome.

  • @HajiIe
    @HajiIe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    At the end Charon was like
    “Those two love birds again, get a room you too”

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Elijah Alcoba *two

    • @cheonsalee5118
      @cheonsalee5118 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @seonunlee2599
      @seonunlee2599 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I laughed so hard at this XD

  • @NurulFahira
    @NurulFahira 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is so calming to watch...

  • @carodoesstuff5624
    @carodoesstuff5624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I read a version of the myth that said he did get out of the underworld, and looked back at Eurydice in joy that they made it but she hadnt crossed yet so she had to go back anyway
    And I thhought the story couldnt be more soul crushing:,)

  • @coachmcguirk6297
    @coachmcguirk6297 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3104

    Poor Persephone. All she did was eat a pomegranate seed.

    • @MochYee
      @MochYee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +348

      *6 pomegranate seeds. Or one-third of a pomegranate, depending on the version.
      But yeah, poor Persephone. (Unless you prefer the more modern interpretations, like me, where she did eventually fall in love with Hades)

    • @khatabalrawi158
      @khatabalrawi158 6 ปีที่แล้ว +372

      Persephone did fall in love with Hades in most of the stories of mythology
      No need to feel sorry

    • @masodemic4509
      @masodemic4509 6 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      In most version of the myth, Persephone did fall in love with Hades and their relationship was really chill

    • @thalassous
      @thalassous 6 ปีที่แล้ว +424

      And Hades, no matter how Disney tries will always be a decent guy with a sucky job.

    • @vanceadrianeangayan4127
      @vanceadrianeangayan4127 6 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      anyone else thinking of the teacher yelling "NO POMEGRANATES! NO NO NO NO POMEGRANATES!"
      Only me? okay..

  • @markherzog5494
    @markherzog5494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    The beginning was sad when his wife died but then I'm filled with great happiness at the end when he says "sometimes, he takes the lead, turning to look back at her as often as he likes." Looking back at her as he was leaving the underworld was the reason why she couldn't leave, but now he look back at her beautiful face as much as he likes. :)

    • @FireTiger941
      @FireTiger941 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know, I cry every time

  • @surajsahoo89
    @surajsahoo89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The music in this video is just marvelous. I wish I can hear it without the voice over

  • @orlandojunior9584
    @orlandojunior9584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never ever seen a tale so well telled like that one.

  • @nevereverr
    @nevereverr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +797

    a greek myth with an actually happy ending? impossible!!

    • @Nicoder6884
      @Nicoder6884 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Cupid and Psyche has a pretty good ending.

    • @borislavaivanova328
      @borislavaivanova328 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This myth is NOT from the Greek Mythology.It's from the Bulgarian Mythology,Orpheus was thracian and it's prooved.Educate yourself.Many people think that he was greek but he wasn't.Read sth 'bout it🙂

    • @borislavaivanova328
      @borislavaivanova328 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Gang Wu You know,I'm not American so it's completely normal to make mistakes.But I didn't want my comment to sound rough anyway.

    • @glowworm2
      @glowworm2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Perseus has a happy ending--unless your name just so happens to be Medusa.

    • @phuongvu527
      @phuongvu527 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Borislava Ivanova that's why you should educate yourself. to not sound rude and rough

  • @cranesolacehilbero9687
    @cranesolacehilbero9687 6 ปีที่แล้ว +487

    One of the most iconic couple i've ever read.

    • @liezelanne777
      @liezelanne777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol Namjoon 😂😂😂

    • @erynnegriffin5219
      @erynnegriffin5219 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe you should not read Antigone...

    • @---kj5ig
      @---kj5ig 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Crane Solace Hilbero RM

    • @lindayantilindayanti2585
      @lindayantilindayanti2585 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What about Hades and Persephone? Their love story was beautiful

    • @montaabigailbeatriceg.5564
      @montaabigailbeatriceg.5564 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jasmine Fantasy yeah, being basically imprisoned in hades' realm is goals haha. she wanted to get out, remember? but she ate the pomegranate seeds so she had to stay till mum n hades had an agreement

  • @stuckonaslide
    @stuckonaslide ปีที่แล้ว +3

    it sucks for him but now I can blast "wait for me" in the car

  • @aerodyte6908
    @aerodyte6908 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The ending brought tears to my eyes
    It’s beautiful

  • @juliaholzschuher
    @juliaholzschuher 4 ปีที่แล้ว +969

    “Oh a liar AND a player too! I’ve met too many men like you”

    • @saphiralucifera2366
      @saphiralucifera2366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Oh no I'm not like that

    • @joRA848
      @joRA848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Jillian Eyre he’s not like any man you’ve meet. Tell her what you’re working on

    • @bilnik6593
      @bilnik6593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      It isn't finished yet

    • @bwayagnes2452
      @bwayagnes2452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@bilnik6593 but when it's done, and when I sing it,
      Spring wil come again

    • @rahul0000nm
      @rahul0000nm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@bwayagnes2452 and the sun will shine and the Godesses will dance

  • @thecomrade1349
    @thecomrade1349 6 ปีที่แล้ว +956

    Still a better love story than twilight

    • @firebow2810
      @firebow2810 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      DAT BOI ROY that's usually the kind of thing you say when people hate each other like Harry and Voldemort

    • @bigboy6191
      @bigboy6191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Still?

    • @zub4516
      @zub4516 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A WAYYYY better story than twilight....

    • @norielleponollera6434
      @norielleponollera6434 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It IS MUCH BETTER

    • @user-tf7zh1nw2z
      @user-tf7zh1nw2z 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Everything is

  • @doink4997
    @doink4997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Going through a breakup. This made me cry. I still love her.

  • @terrabyte3881
    @terrabyte3881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Everyone: from hadestown
    Me, expecting, PJO, Hades, and Persona fans: BrUh

  • @lflores.
    @lflores. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +914

    I recently watched a movie called Portrait of a Lady on Fire and at one point they read this story and then they try to get the meaning behind it. One of them said that Orpheus should have trusted more and shouldn’t have looked back even in temptation. The other said that maybe Orpheus meant to look back not because of love but because of poetry. And the other said that maybe it was Eurydice who told Orpheus to turn around...it was something like that, I don’t exactly remember how they said it lol but it left me thinking a lot and then the end of the movie came and I cried waterfalls this time:’(

    • @anaantonijevic8304
      @anaantonijevic8304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      AND TURN AROUND when Marianne was leaving

    • @MadisynTerrell
      @MadisynTerrell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ana Antonijevic ugh ik that part was perfect

    • @jahnavipadsala6949
      @jahnavipadsala6949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      even at the end , it seems that marianne could run to heloise at the theatre , she instead chose the memory of her and made ' the peot's choice , not the lover's . ' ... agree ??

    • @anaantonijevic8304
      @anaantonijevic8304 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jahnavipadsala6949 definitelyyy

    • @pragyapriya1768
      @pragyapriya1768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      He made the poet's choice, not the lover's. :) And oh, "Turn around." That moment from the movie will never escape my heart.

  • @prosperouspudding7409
    @prosperouspudding7409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    " 'Til death do us apart ", but in here, death brought them together. That's quite beautiful.

  • @nikabichinashvili4038
    @nikabichinashvili4038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This story is just beautiful I cried like a baby

  • @thehappylemon8327
    @thehappylemon8327 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE your myths! You are so smart, TED-ED! How do know so much?

  • @amandac9894
    @amandac9894 6 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    Persephone and Hades next?

    • @chaostade4087
      @chaostade4087 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i think there is that video...

    • @hagrid1123
      @hagrid1123 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whats your profile pic

    • @naomi6091
      @naomi6091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chaostade4087 No, there isn't

  • @abigailgracie
    @abigailgracie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3938

    WHO’S HERE BECAUSE OF HADESTOWN???

  • @ocaphoenix5347
    @ocaphoenix5347 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    perfect! many thx - watching while listening to Gluck's Met Opera live 6/8/2024 - checking out ur patreon - happy summer, everyone!! x

  • @remiren9832
    @remiren9832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this version

  • @CharlieBoyyy696
    @CharlieBoyyy696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    IM COMING WAIT FOR ME
    I HEAR THE WALLS REPEATING
    THE FALLING OF OUR FEET, IT SOUNDS LIKE DRUMMING
    AND WE ARE NOT ALONE
    I HEAR THE ROCKS AND STONE
    ECHOING OUR SONG
    IM COMING

  • @DerpySquiddles4043
    @DerpySquiddles4043 6 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    'wild women' that really made me laugh

  • @1ov3
    @1ov3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chills, literal chills.

  • @Orionuki
    @Orionuki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This story always makes me so sad to listen to but so beautiful

  • @alikis88
    @alikis88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    He should've held Eurydice's hand when they walked out of the underworld. That way he would've known that she was behind him.

    • @BaboFighting
      @BaboFighting 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      He wasn't allowed to hold her though..it was another condition hades gave him

    • @firstcanonkill1767
      @firstcanonkill1767 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@BaboFighting he wasn't allowed to touch to, look at, talk to or even make a noise that she could return to prove she was there.

    • @sometimessnarky1642
      @sometimessnarky1642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Hunter Velinov all he had to do was follow the directions. It isn't Hades being cruel when Orpheus turned to look back. (Now whoever sent the snake to bite her in the first place is a different story.)

  • @miraculousmisery772
    @miraculousmisery772 6 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    I'm crying right now. I read about him and his tragedy in the book of a writer and wept at that time. Now I'm watching this and I wept again. 😢

    • @californiacornflakes
      @californiacornflakes 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sherlock Holmes which book? :)

    • @saujanyaroy4942
      @saujanyaroy4942 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Percy Jackson series

    • @miraculousmisery772
      @miraculousmisery772 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      california cornflakes it's the book of a Bengali writer...??? Yes. A bengali writer.

    • @SoumOrg
      @SoumOrg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sherlock Holmes how did you knew that he's Bengali?

    • @jeromebacani9471
      @jeromebacani9471 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Silly sherlock. You are a sociopath.. You cant feel emotions.

  • @instantramen4588
    @instantramen4588 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's uncanny how similar Orpheus and Eurydice's tale is similar to Izanagi and Izanami's.