ORPHEUS & EURYDICE IN 10 MINUTES

This is a homemade video, made by three teenagers for their mythology project in school. The myth: While fleeing from Aristaeus, Eurydice ran into a nest of snakes which bit her fatally. Distraught, Orpheus played such sad songs and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and gods wept. On their advice, Orpheus traveled to the underworld and his music softened the hearts of Hades, who agreed to allow Eurydice to return with him to earth on one condition: he should walk in front of her and not look back until they both had reached the upper world. He set off with Eurydice following and in his anxiety as soon as he reached the upper world he turned to look at her, but her foot was still in the shadows of the Underworld