"I am Orpheus, the maker of songs. Great Apollo came to me often and instructed me in the art of melody so that what came from my lyre could touch the heart even of a stone, and when I went to my mother Calliope in her cave she taught me the secrets of making verses that would hold people entranced the way a magical spell might hold them. And so music has flowed from me all my life as though from an inextinguishable fountain, which is to say that there has been music in the world since the beginning of time and that music will endure to times end, and beyond it to the moment of beginning again and so it was that a shaggyhaired Thracian princeling entered into his role in the universe."Gifted with the golden lyre, Orpheusrumored son of the god Apollo, and yet recognized as the heir of Oeagros, King of Thracetells us of the tale of his life as he writes songs throughout the known world. From his role as teacher and spiritual adviser to the Ciconian people, to the profound love and loss of his beloved Eurydice, to his quest with Jason and the Argonauts to claim the Golden Fleece, Orpheus songs of his life experiences help him sculpt a world that, without his music, would be devoid of the passion and purpose only a muse of his power could provide.Aware of his own fate before he sets out, Orpheus nevertheless continues on the path preordained for him, to discover if knowing your future prevents you from experiencing your present with a sense of wonder and immediacy that can...

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