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Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

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Stories have had a moral, for as long as we have told stories. This week, Aesop; A crowd-sourced literary celebrity. What is the fact and what is the fiction? And why it matters.

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

NOTES

MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠

César Cui: "Orientale"; Capitol Symphony Orch, Carmen Dragon 1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDx-kRbXoCU

Xiomara Alfaro: "Angelitos Negros" 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9XyHOHiLw

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Winifred Atwell 1957

https://archive.org/details/lp_winifred-atwell-plays-gershwin_winifred-atwell-ted-heath-and-his-music/disc1/01.01.+Rhapsody+In+Blue.mp3

Charlie Gore: "Absolutely Free", 1953

https://archive.org/details/78_absolutely-free_charlie-gore-charlie-gore-gore-young_gbia0484950b

Manos Hadjidakis: "The Myth", Christiana, 1960

https://archive.org/details/lp_ilios-thalassa.mp3

Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome", Paul Paray, 1959

https://archive.org/details/lp_the-heart-of-the-opera_antal-dorati-paul-paray-detroit-symphony-o/disc1/02.01.+Dance+Of+The+Seven+Veils+From+%22Salome%22.mp3

Manouche: "Miri Louloudi", 1989 (with permission)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtzBs5bSIE

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This week Alex gets to quiz the show's cultural historian, Dr Debbie Challis, starting with the obvious question: What the hell is a cultural historian? 

Listen to Debbie explain her complicated on-again-off-again love affair with the classical and the classic - but also Greece itself. And her battle to be heard without being labelled and filed away - something which every contributor to this podcast seems to share; a compulsion to explore not just our allotted piece of the puzzle, but how the pieces connect.

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new!

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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

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There is an elegant symmetry to Cassandra being misunderstood - still, millennia later - as a symbol for pessimism. A prophet of doom. But that wasn’t her curse at all. Her curse was to have true insight and yet be unable to get those around her to listen.

And is the reason we prioritise some voices over others not the central, existential question at a time when real knowledge struggles to make itself heard over a chorus of populism? What wooden horses have we let through our cities’ gates?

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

NOTES

MUSIC 

Oluf Dimitri Røe: “Fajum” ON YOUTUBE 

Aldo Ciccolini: Erik Satie “Gnossiennes No.1 FROM ARCHIVE

Lulu Belle: “Never take ‘no’ for an answer” FROM ARCHIVE 

ON ft Marianna Sangita: “Et Glimt” ON YOUTUBE    

Risë Stevens: Bizet; Carmen “Card Scene” FROM ARCHIVE 

Betty Lou Allen: J.S.C. Bach; Cassandra Cantata FROM ARCHIVE

Fedora Barbieri: Verdi; Un Ballo in Maschera “Re dell’abisso” FROM ARCHIVE 

Marisa Ferrer & Charles Cambon: Berlioz; Les Troyens "Reviens a toi, vierge adorée” FROM ARCHIVE 

Anna Maria Alberghetti: “They didn’t believe me” FROM ARCHIVE 

FILM

Helen of Troy 1956 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/

Scream 2 1997 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/

The Matrix 1999 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

The Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/

Doctor Sleep 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5606664/

Nightmare Alley 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/

Agamemnon 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyouI7BUsI

Promising Young Woman 2020 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/

Kaos 2024 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8550732/

Don't Look Up 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/

ART

Attic Red cup with the taking of Cassandra

Terracotta amphora with the taking of Cassandra

Evelyn de Morgan's Cassandra

Pompeii mosaic of Ajax dragging Cassandra from Palladium.

Solomon J. Solomon's Ajax & Cassandra

Ronsard's "Avant le temps tes tempes fleuriront"

Louise Bogan's "Cassandra"

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This week we meet the show's archaeologist, Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, and talk about her profession: What it used to be, what it is now, and what it isn't. The romantic ideas of it and how far they are from the practical reality... And why nothing can substitute being in a place, touching, smelling, hearing, and feeling the context of what is unearthed from below.

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new!

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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

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Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl?

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

NOTES

Will be added in a few hours

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

… 

Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl?

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

NOTES

MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme - “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris” Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE.

“Kori” (Acoustic) Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE

“Kori” (Album Version) ON - YOUTUBE

Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre”, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - ARCHIVE 

Claudio Monteverdi “Addio Roma” from L’Incoronazione di Poppea - ARCHIVE 

Antonio Vivaldi “Autumn” from The four Seasons - ARCHIVE 

Heitor Villa Lobos “Bachianas Brasileiras No.5”, Bidu Sayao - ARCHIVE 

Giacomo Puccini “Flower Duet” from Madama Butterfly, Renata Tebaldi/Nell Ranking - ARCHIVE 

Francesco Sacrati “E dove t’aggirli” from Proserpina, Victoria de los Angeles - YOUTUBE 

“Sobbin’ Women” from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Howard Keel - ARCHIVE

Francesco Cilea “Esser madre e un inferno” from L’Arlesiana, Ebe Stignani - ARCHIVE  

“Am I blue” Ethel Waters - YOUTUBE

Amilcare Ponchielli “Oh Madre Mia” Act I finale from La Gioconda, Maria Callas/Maria Amadini - ARCHIVE

WA Mozart “Lacrimosa” from Requiem, Eugen Jochum - ARCHIVE 

Kurt Weill “September Song”, Sarah Vaughan - ARCHIVE 

FILM

“The Goddess of Spring” (1934) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvnAypUSJs

Children of Men (2006) 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ 

Lady Bird (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4925292/ 

Terms of Endearment (1983) 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086425/ 

Steel Magnolias (1989) 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098384/ 

ARTWORK 

Two examples of a Melian amphoras, with Kore figure, c. 6thC BCE here and here.  

“Hades Abducting Persephone” fresco Vergina 4C BCE 

“Statue of Isis-Persephone holding a sistrum” marble statue Gortyn 180-190 CE

“Head of Persephone” earthenware Centuripae, c.420 BCE

“Bronze statuette of a female votary with pomegranate” 4th–3rd century BCE

“Persephone and Hades” red-figure kylix Vulci, c. 440-430 BCE

“The abduction of Persephone by Hades” terracotta hydria c. 340–330 BCE

“Persephone on the Throne” terracotta tablet Locri, 470 BCE

“Enthroned Deity” (probably Persephone) Taranto, c. 480-470 BCE

Bernini Gian Lorenzo “Rape of Proserpine” 

Peter Paul Rubens “The Rape of Proserpine” 

Luca Giordano “The Abduction of Proserpina” 

Maxfield Parrish “Proserpina and the Sea Nymphs”

Hiram Powers “Proserpine”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti eighth and final version of “Proserpine”

READING

Taffy Brodesser-Akner “Let’s Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again” 

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Marian Villancico 

Edna St Vincent Millay “Prayer to Persephone”

Rita Dove “Canary”  

Rita Dove “The Bistro Styx”

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Naomi Smith gets the behind the scenes skinny on Podyssey from Alex Andreou. Where did the idea come from? What's coming up in Season 2? What is the most surprising fact so far?

Lots of exclusive access, previews, and exclusive announcements.

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

… 

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new!

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This week we meet the creator of the theme tune and much of the music on Podyssey - Musician Marianna Sangita.

WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE

https://youtu.be/A-xAKBPuSaQ

SUBSCRIBE TO PODYSSEY ON YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo

FULL VIDEO OF PODYSSEY THEME (To Margoudi ki O Alexandris)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc

MARIANNA SANGITA'S FULL MUSIC:

https://www.mariannasangita.com/

ADDITIONAL TRACKS

GLAROS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA

ON's KORI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zegho00jHVc&list=OLAK5uy_nv3aKiRBefjqqnpo05P__0py_gwnIdDsw&index=4

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

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When was it - and why? - that the cautionary tale of King Midas, a myth about the absurdity of excess, the consequences of greed and spectacularly bad judgment, magically transformed into an aspirational example of success? When did we elevate him from lowly figure of fun to a gold penthouse and the Oval Office?

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

NOTES

MUSIC 

MOZART - A Musical Joke - Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 “In the Hall of the Mountain King” - Eugene Ormandy - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

BERLIN - After you get what you want you don’t want it - Marilyn Monroe - YOUTUBE 

ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Largo al factotum” - Rolando Panerai - YOUTUBE  

BORODIN/WRIGHT - Kismet “Baubles, Bangles, and Beeds” - Ann Blyth - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

BERLIN - Call Me Madam “The Money Song” - Dinah Shore - YOUTUBE 

MENOTTI - Amahl And The Night Visitors “All that gold” - Rosemary Kuhlmann - PRIVATE COLLECTION

STRAUSS - Die Liebe der Danae - 1952 Broadcast - PRIVATE COLLECTION  

PUCCINI - Manon Lescaut “In quelle trine” - Renata Tebaldi - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

BERNSTEIN - Candide “Glitter and be gay” - Roberta Peters - YOUTUBE 

BACH - "Geschwinde, Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbelnden Winde", BWV 201 - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

GOUNOD - Faust “Le veau d’or” - Nicolai Ghiaurov - Public Television - YOUTUBE 

All that glitters is not gold - Mildred Bailey - YOUTUBE 

FILM

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672218/ 

Wall Street (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/  

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/   

Goodfellas (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/   

Scarface (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/  

Big (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/  

Trading Places (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/ 

Limitless (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/ 

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/  

Goldfinger (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/ 

ARTWORK 

Silenus riding a donkey 

The Judgment of Midas by Nicolas Mignard, 1667. 

King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Filippo Lauri, c1650-1694 

LIFE magazine Goldfinger cover. 

Images of Ancient Gordion 

Midas Gate in Anatolia 

Map of Ancient Anatolia 

Electrum coins 

Gold Croeseid 

Andy Warhol - Dollar Signs 

“Siren” by Marc Quinn (2008) 

“America” by Maurizio Cattelan (2016) 

“Madonna and child” by Sandro Boticelli (1480-81)

“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt (1907) 

Ceiling Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1894) 

Gold Death Mask (Tomb V, Mycenae) 

Meowdas (fortnite) 

READING

Proust “Mensonges” dedication 

“King Midas” by Howard Moss 

“Mrs. Midas” by Carol Ann Duffy 

Essay on Gold and Melancholy 

John Lyly’s "King Midas"  

“The Reading Mother” by Strickland Gillilan 

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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.

Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

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Orpheus and his lyre. Orpheus and Euridice. Orpheus and the Argonauts. Orpheus in the Underworld. Orpheus and his lament. Orpheus and his pain. Orpheus, Orpheus, Orpheus. The quintessential suffering artist. The shining example of love’s triumph over even death. 

Or maybe just a performative, entitled, 'singer-songwriter' nepo-baby .

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

NOTES

MUSIC 

Roy Henderson - Orpheus with his lute - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Reinhold Glière - Harp Concerto In B Flat Major, Op. 4, Larghetto - on YOUTUBE 

Salli Terri & Laurindo Almeida - Black is the color - on SPOTIFY 

Oluf Dimitri Røe - Sabouna of Mykonos - on SPOTIFY 

Elena Polonska - Ciaccona - on YOUTUBE 

Monteverdi - L’Orfeo “Tu sei morta” Enrico de Franceschi (Orfeo) - PRIVATE COLLECTION 

Glück - Orfeo e Euridice “Ché faró senza Euridice” Nan Merriman (Orfeo) - Telephone Hour TV ARCHIVE 

Pedro Infante - Soy Infeliz - on SPOTIFY 

Marianna Sangita & Oluf Dimitri Røe - Lafina (The Doe) - on SPOTIFY

Korngold - Die Tote Stadt “Glück das mir verblieb” Ilona Steingruber & Anton Dermota - on YOUTUBE

Billie Holiday - “I’ll be seeing you” - on SPOTIFY

FILM

Coco (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/  

Orphée (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041719/ 

Orfeu Negru (1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/  

Inception (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/  

The English Patient (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116209/  

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/  

Chinatown (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/ 

Apocalypse Now (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ 

Contact (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/ 

What Dreams May Come (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/ 

Pet Sematary (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837563/ 

Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/ 

Death becomes her (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/ 

Vertigo (1958) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/ 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/ 

Fitzcarraldo (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083946/ 

ARTWORK 

Orpheus embracing his lyre by Unknown 

Red figure vase depicting the head of Orpheus by Unknown here and here.

More about red-figure pottery 

Examples of Orpheus charming the animals here, here, here, here, here, and here.

An example of Orphic Christ

“Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus” by Waterhouse 

“Thracian Girl carrying the Head of Orpheus on his Lyre” by Moreau

“Euridice dying” by Lebœf

“Orpheus leading Euridice from the Underworld” by Cortot 

Vergil’s version of the Orpheus myth 

More about the Derveni Papyrus 

Reiner Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus”

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