"Hades' Lament" is a four-sonnet poem written from the point-of-view of Hades and to his soulmate, Persephone. The composer is Orpheus. It is told after Orpheus' failed attempt to retrieve Eurydice from Hades, his years of wandering and the dismemberment from the Maenads of Dionysus. The poem is from the Orphic Bible, a collection of Orpheus' poems and writings. The poems have no elements of Orphism or any other mystery religion from the ancient...
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