by Ovid · Penguin Classics · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780146001901
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«Orpheus in the Underworld» is Ovid's classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (96 pages, in English).
The tale recounts how Orpheus, shortly after marrying Eurydice, loses her to a snakebite and descends to the underworld to bring her back. It is a classic myth about love beyond death.
Text taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Mary M. Innes (1996 edition, Penguin 60s Classics series).
For readers interested in Greek mythology and literary classics, especially the works of Ovid.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
