This week, friend of the pod Spenser Starke joins Rowan in a discussion about the famous Ancient Greek myth of “Orpheus and Eurydice”.

Spenser Starke is a game designer at Critical Role, one of the designers behind the TTRPG “Kids on Brooms” and he’s also the brilliant mind behind “Icarus: A Storytelling Game About How Great Civilizations Fall”. His latest game, “Alice is Missing” was recognized in 2021 with multiple Ennie awards and is a personal fave of our W&F hosts.

Get ready for the sad boi emo hour on Willing & Fable with Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke!

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_and_Eurydice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#:~:text=For%20the%20Greeks%2C%20Orpheus%20was,Orpheus%20were%20regarded%20as%20oracles.

“Eurydice” by Sarah Ruhl

https://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/teritter/eurydice.pdf

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhaepLsP5eg

Greeka

https://www.greeka.com/greece-myths/orpheus-eurydice/

Schmoop

https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/mythology/orpheus-eurydice/themes/death

Shaffrillas (Youtube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGF76aNf_o8

Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/triggered/202011/the-psychology-orpheus-why-do-we-look-back#:~:text=Ovid's%20 Metamorphoses%2C%20for%20 instance%2C%20flatly,%3A%20he%20stopped%2C%20and%20forgetful%2C

Bustle

https://www.bustle.com/articles/164544-the-one-thing-you-didnt-know-about-moulin-rouge#:~:text=Yes%2C%20really%3A%20Moulin%20Rouge!,essentially%20end%20the%20same%20way.

The Toast

https://the-toast.net/2015/01/26/gleeful-mobs-women-murdering-men-western-art-history/

Daily Art Magazine

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/dionysus-maenads/

Interesting Literature

https://interestingliterature.com/2021/01/orpheus-eurydice-myth-summary-analysis/

PennState - Electronic Theses and Dissertations for Graduate School

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/9251#:~:text=Evidence%20from%20inscriptions%20supports%20the,as%20important%20to%20the%20Athenians.