Orphean

Entering the Foundry Branch Tunnel feels a bit like an Orphean descent, as cool, damp air rushes up toward bikers and joggers crossing under the C&O Canal and the adjacent Canal Road on their way between the Crescent Trail and the Foxhall neighborhood of Georgetown.

Spelunking in Georgetown 2010

Aristotle informs us, that Æschylus was in danger of being torn to pieces by the people, or at least of being severely beaten by them, for having, in one of his dramas, given some idea of those Orphean mysteries in which nearly everybody was then initiated.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Was he an Orphean hero, a charmed traveler to Hades who had so pleased the gods with his musical gifts he was permitted to snatch Eurydice from the jaws of death, only to lose her on his return by looking her in the face?

Rahsaan as Orpheus 2007

For this purpose he begged the keeper to give him a cat, which he put in a cage, and let loose at the very instant when the little hairy people were most enchanted by the Orphean skill he displayed.

Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Thomas Hanly Ball

The man who wears the mantle of Laurier without his Orphean magic cannot lead Quebec.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

You may transform your own home into a valley of Hinnom, a veritable Gehenna; or you may make of the humblest cot a heaven, illumed by love and gilded with God's own glory -- a Beulah land where flowers forever bloom, where perfumed censors swing and music throbs and thrills sweeter far than Orphean lyre or song of Israfeel.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

The sculptor has chosen the tragic side of the Orphean myth.

The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition Stella George Stern Perry 1916

For stranger crowds the Orphean lyre now stringing,

Dedication 1909

For stranger crowds the Orphean lyre now stringing,

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892

Destroy, sweep away, prepare the ground; then shall music the holy, music the civiliser, breathe over the renewed earth, and with Orphean magic raise in perfected beauty the towers of the City of Man.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880