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    Orpheus goes to the underworld to rescue his true love.
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Комментарии • 174

  • @sipioc
    @sipioc 6 лет назад +58

    This series is criminally under appreciated

    • @galkali
      @galkali Год назад

      It surely wasn't. Why do you think it was?

  • @StringedYak
    @StringedYak 9 лет назад +59

    This made me so sad when I saw it as a kid. I still think it's one of the most tragic love stories ever told.

  • @XxRavenwishxX
    @XxRavenwishxX 9 лет назад +185

    Why do they portray Hades as a Jerk and Persephone as some helpless weeping victim? Hades loves Persepone, and Orpheus convinced them both to release Eurydice by telling them that love is stronger than death, and appealing to them through their story, it shows many parallels.Also, Zeus gave Persephone to Hades, he was not "powerless" to rescue her, he gave her away. And it was Persephone who made the condition about looking back at Eurydice.

    • @kleitoes
      @kleitoes 8 лет назад +18

      Hades is not as bad as he is portrayed :(

    • @tanncheevasit2398
      @tanncheevasit2398 8 лет назад +9

      Well to be fair she was the one who ate the pomegranate

    • @eirennmurtagh709
      @eirennmurtagh709 7 лет назад +34

      Agreed. Of all the Greek gods, Hades is the most reasonable and fair. He is only doing his duties as the God of the Underworld. Honestly, Persephone got the greatest deal among the wives.

    • @almanacofsleep
      @almanacofsleep 7 лет назад +16

      "Why do they portray Hades as a Jerk and Persephone as some helpless weeping victim?"
      because that's how it was portrayed in the Greek myths. His abduction Persphone is not a love match, he desires her and makes her his, shes forced to spend six mouths of the year with him in the underworld..

    • @Samantha2130720
      @Samantha2130720 6 лет назад +11

      LauraVA Vuong
      Yes. His love for her was what was stronger than Death, himself.
      That's why he loved Persephone. She showed his more human and kind side, the side he probably thought didn't exist in himself. She added a ray of light to his sunless void of existence.
      It would have been a great testament to how love conquers all.
      I too felt like the scene would have been more powerful if Hades had been shown as more compassionate.

  • @daniellamorrow
    @daniellamorrow 5 лет назад +40

    “Waaaaiittt for meeee, I’m comin!!!” 😩

    • @angelicab.7844
      @angelicab.7844 5 лет назад +9

      Waaaaaiiiitttttt I’m coming with you

    • @potatomo9609
      @potatomo9609 2 месяца назад

      Waiiiiittt for meee, I’m coming too
      I’m coming too

  • @chancycat9822
    @chancycat9822 5 лет назад +27

    The only saving grace of this sad but beautiful myth
    ..Is when Orpheus is killed is that his soul goes down to Hades again and rejoins Eurydice in the Elysian Fields where he can look back at her all he wants,
    and never has to worry about losing her again!
    What makes me so mad is that in some myth versions.. is that they fail to mention this...and they just want us to think that Orpheus and Eurydice are eternally separated which is so not true!

  • @jish55
    @jish55 5 лет назад +59

    A few things: 1) Orpheus played a lyre, 2) there are many myths that portray Hades and Persephone having a loving relationship, 3) it's being disputed amongst scholars as to whether or not Persephone was tricked due to the fact that everyone knew that if one ate the food of the Underworld, they were bound to it, 4) Persphone loved her role as Queen as it was a form of freedom away from her overbearing mother.

    • @acebaker8186
      @acebaker8186 4 года назад +6

      Yeah all of that suspect except for the lyre. Especially number 4. The original myths say she was stolen and was tricked into staying, your interpretation is actually a feminist interpretation that, while nice, is not accurate nor does it do what the original myth intended and reflect on the realities of young women in Ancient Greece, plus she was moved by Orpheus music and pleaded with Hades on his behalf. Hades was pitiless and described with dread.

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 4 года назад +2

      5) he's playing a recorder/whistle but we hear a flute... when I was little I was amazed by his performance but now I just realized it's fake...

    • @TheBigMclargehuge
      @TheBigMclargehuge 2 года назад

      well you forgotten these other major factors. I don't give a shit. I really don't give a shit. I don't think anybody gives a shit.

    • @NbSkaz
      @NbSkaz 2 года назад +2

      @@TheBigMclargehuge LOL ok edge lord. Just ignore all storytelling then and go look at paint drying.

  • @Josh3B
    @Josh3B 9 лет назад +20

    Robert Stephens as Hades just makes this scene, and the whole episode for me. From his first line, he just kills it.

    • @VivienLadyO
      @VivienLadyO 8 лет назад +4

      I saw him several times on stage. He was one of the very finest of actors, magnetic and magnificent, with his dark, caressing voice and tremendous presence.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 3 года назад

      He played Aragorn in a BBC Radio series of "The Lord of the Rings," and with all due respect to Viggo Mortensen, Stephens IS Aragorn.

  • @chancycat9822
    @chancycat9822 5 лет назад +12

    He played a lyre and also the flute!
    He was a talented musician
    But while he was lucky in somethings,unfortunately he was unlucky in love...

  • @FEARLESSGaming27
    @FEARLESSGaming27 9 лет назад +144

    Ahem, he played a lyre.

    • @YourMomz07
      @YourMomz07 9 лет назад +8

      it appears you made liars of them...

    • @Firefox-qi1bi
      @Firefox-qi1bi 7 лет назад +2

      FEARLESSGaming yeah, I was thinking that too but he played recorders

    • @waterlily7075
      @waterlily7075 6 лет назад +1

      FEARLESSGaming I know this because I watch rick and martison👌

    • @chancycat9822
      @chancycat9822 5 лет назад +1

      @Fearless Gaming He was a musician and he played the lyre and the flute!

    • @malahamavet
      @malahamavet 4 года назад +2

      It doesn't matter, he might play flute like instruments, but in this video he plays recorders and we hear flutes wtf🤣

  • @TheMechanician
    @TheMechanician 11 лет назад +57

    Spoiler: He looked.

  • @annarosedeleonguerrero505
    @annarosedeleonguerrero505 5 лет назад +4

    Still one of my favorite stories. Except, I remember being scared stiff at the snake part lol.
    They did an amazing job at this, I wish they'd gotten a chance to do more myths! This also has some of the MOST STUNNING music I've ever heard. The flute theme at the end, as Michael Gambon narrates is so beautiful. Such an underrated series.

  • @princesscadance197
    @princesscadance197 9 месяцев назад +1

    ‘It’s only cold on the Earth for six months!’
    ‘Only’ lul. Half the year. He says it like it’s only one month.

  • @Armudusk
    @Armudusk 3 года назад +3

    just sad he turns his head around almost at the end and sadly he looses her once again.. tragic end for such a beautiful tail

  • @Mavado1
    @Mavado1 6 лет назад +3

    I am the headache that will not shift, epic line.

  • @chancycat9822
    @chancycat9822 5 лет назад +8

    I've always thought that Eurydice would be a beautiful name for a little girl or Daphne and also Medea!

    • @brittybee6615
      @brittybee6615 3 года назад +1

      My fiancé insists he wants to name potential future daughter Persephone, Percy for short.
      Personally I like basic boring common names, but if I really had to go with a Greek myth one, Medea is very pretty.

    • @karaokeandrandomclips
      @karaokeandrandomclips Год назад

      Medea was the woman who killed her kids

    • @karaokeandrandomclips
      @karaokeandrandomclips Год назад

      @@chancycat9822 Ok, calm down lol

  • @DonovanBeveridge5875
    @DonovanBeveridge5875 4 года назад +2

    When Orpheus played his lyre it reminded them when they were alive again it made all of dead wept for the first time in a long time all of underworld had stood still for eons both of king and Queen both wept it reminded of them when they were young once a and when the underworld felt young yet again

  • @SharontheRedBaron
    @SharontheRedBaron 3 года назад +3

    Wow! I never realized Jim Henson did these. I felt compelled to check out the story of Orpheus, after listening to #johndenver ‘s song, “Spirit”.🦋 Love that man! Not in a stalker way😆, but a way in connection to his words and beliefs. I’m right there beside him.🙌🏻💜🌈
    So eloquent. Like this clip,”I BELIEVE LOVE prevails over ALL evil”. Again, and again.....❤️❤️❤️🌈🙏🇺🇸🦅🐸😉🇺🇸🦋 Thank you #jimhenson !

    • @gregkilby7043
      @gregkilby7043 2 года назад +1

      I believe that, sadly, Jim Henson died before these were released, and his son (Brian) and the Jim Henson's Creature Shop created them. I'm sure Jim would have been proud, though.

  • @discoverydavid
    @discoverydavid 4 года назад +1

    3:16 You can see he is playing his lyre, but he's doing his 'flute salad' mix today.

  • @dabbingtardis8277
    @dabbingtardis8277 7 лет назад +8

    At school we are doing a short video on the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice and we can't get through 1 scene without 13 bloopers.

  • @audreyhardesty9080
    @audreyhardesty9080 6 лет назад +2

    I watched this in school and I just wanted to see it again 😂 I’m being Eurydice for the wax museum

  • @Josh3B
    @Josh3B 12 лет назад +8

    Robert Stephens is amazing here as Hades. It's a shame he died as young as he did.

  • @buffalojoe4444
    @buffalojoe4444 Год назад

    Dude that line hades has is amazing

  • @johnmartin4119
    @johnmartin4119 4 года назад +2

    Hades: SING!! FOR AND OLLLLLD MAAAAN!!🎶

  • @CubanPete1990
    @CubanPete1990 7 лет назад +7

    Hey it's Ark Malik from True Lies (1994)!

  • @musicmike1960
    @musicmike1960 12 лет назад +2

    This is a great story about love and death....

  • @doyleperkins4916
    @doyleperkins4916 3 года назад +1

    Beautiful production. Bravo!

  • @americaroleplayer
    @americaroleplayer 3 года назад +3

    The only reason Hades is evil in this is because the Devil is evil in Christianity. Hades isn't evil in the myth, he didn't even choose the Underworld, he just drew the short straw. It's a shame, I thought if anyone would do the story justice, it'd be Jim Henson.

  • @hayleywatkinson3169
    @hayleywatkinson3169 11 лет назад +1

    Amazing series and this is the best one.

  • @ellinida010
    @ellinida010 12 лет назад +2

    when he sees the bright sun greeting him as he is close to exiting the underworld he forgets and turns around to look at eurydice......and looses her back to hades :( so sad

  • @ElvenArtist
    @ElvenArtist 12 лет назад +1

    I would buy those songs in a soundtrack...so pretty.

  • @VChong1991
    @VChong1991 3 года назад +1

    Orpheus shouldve said, can i talk to her to see if shes behind me than looking?

  • @shenni7158
    @shenni7158 9 лет назад +45

    Am I the only one who loves Greek mythology!

    • @jivkogg
      @jivkogg 9 лет назад +3

      Orpheus is a thracian tho, not greek..and his name is Orphey in thracian :)

    • @MrMexijorge
      @MrMexijorge 9 лет назад

      jivkogg Actually the thracian people had a part of greece culture and geography.

    • @hubavenaland4749
      @hubavenaland4749 9 лет назад +3

      actually, it's vice versa :)

    • @diegofernandez7504
      @diegofernandez7504 9 лет назад +1

      And this is still Greek mythology

    • @TheCvetelinaa
      @TheCvetelinaa 8 лет назад +4

      It's a thracian. A lot of the thracians are now thought to be Greeks, but it 's not true. It was the Rome empire, but in the empire there were different ethnic groups. the land of Bulgaria and Romania, Macedonia, parts of Turkey and Greece were populated with thracians. Orpheus was a thracian, so were most of the prophets of the so called Greek mytology. Interesting fact. Greece appears as a name in Europe after 1821 year. Before that it was never called Greece. How so the thracians who were the highest percent of the population of the balkans ( and there is still a land called Trakia, which is in Bulgaria, and still the country Bulgaria, which by the way exists in Europe with the very same name- Bulgaria since 681ad.) have disappeared, but the Greeks who never existed in Europe as Greeks have survived and not only survived but are responsible for the European culture and civilization, when all these was invented by the THRACIANS...?!

  • @waterlily7075
    @waterlily7075 6 лет назад +1

    This episode but whenever Orpheus plays music through his flute all that plays is the a crapy recorder cover of mask off by future.

  • @deanmonaghan1176
    @deanmonaghan1176 9 лет назад

    Socrates valued so highly the transcendence of archetypal awareness so greatly that his equanimity, even eagerness in anticipation of his death by hemlock.

  • @MrTobik87
    @MrTobik87 11 лет назад

    BEST SHOW EVER

  • @Connor-fj5rc
    @Connor-fj5rc 3 года назад +2

    Why does Hades have such a bad rep. He’s actually one of the kindest of the Greek gods. Compared to Zeus he’s a saint.

  • @mikejohndeelanuza207
    @mikejohndeelanuza207 7 лет назад

    Hi. I need a full movie of this clip. please help me.

  • @sanahalsingh1065
    @sanahalsingh1065 5 лет назад +2

    But Orpheus played a lyre didn't he?

  • @ElvenArtist
    @ElvenArtist 12 лет назад +1

    I watched these last year in language arts

  • @sagpuif
    @sagpuif 12 лет назад

    Does anyone know the name of the songs he played?

  • @icarus7z7
    @icarus7z7 13 лет назад +4

    2.2.1 Daedalus and Icarus - Missing....****
    2.2.2 Orpheus and Eurydice - Missing....****
    Can anyone get these?

  • @TBgunsandbutter
    @TBgunsandbutter 6 лет назад

    Sprocket, went to Fraggle Rock, but his pup brother Locket, went to mythos

  • @Jobe-13
    @Jobe-13 4 года назад

    He played a lyre. Not pipes.

  • @hodgepodgebuhgodge3739
    @hodgepodgebuhgodge3739 5 лет назад +6

    Orpheus DID look back.

    • @chancycat9822
      @chancycat9822 5 лет назад +1

      No the actor Art Malik is from India..so he's Hindu!

  • @GoRY69R
    @GoRY69R 13 лет назад

    I want to see the rest of this now lol.

  • @marinairusta1975
    @marinairusta1975 11 лет назад +1

    por favor podrían subir los videos the storyteller miotos griegos. doblados o subtitulados

  • @ricegum2713
    @ricegum2713 7 лет назад +1

    I am learning about greek myths

    • @ke2delight
      @ke2delight 7 лет назад

      You mean Thracian myths? Greece as name and country didn't exist before the 18 hundreds. Thracian civilization is much older then most recorded history.

  • @theevilascotcompany9255
    @theevilascotcompany9255 4 года назад

    Ha, it's Gina Bellman from Leverage!

  • @ukryelena786
    @ukryelena786 2 года назад

    Orpheus did not trust enough his wife, in following him? Or, he is just very caring man. Hades should clarify his objective. Otherwise - the consequence is for conduct without knowledge; unless, Orpheus was aware of Hades objective - then, we are in all together different ball game.

  • @Timamalao
    @Timamalao 11 лет назад

    Do you have more clips? :D

  • @Kingink7
    @Kingink7 11 лет назад +1

    Orpheus played the lyre

  • @pedropedro9605
    @pedropedro9605 4 года назад

    Marco Nanini aí, foda! Como sempre

  • @effielunn
    @effielunn 8 лет назад

    it's Abner Brown!

  • @rujor
    @rujor 5 лет назад

    Wanna bet he looks back to see if she is following? 😎

  • @ellnats
    @ellnats 6 лет назад

    how many loved ones have you taken hades, i assume that everyone in your domain were taken from their true love, just like mine, i know because you tricked me and she died by my own hand, and now i have sworn to make you pay for it, and so i will

  • @MoonCakeisaLie
    @MoonCakeisaLie 13 лет назад +1

    @LedSledJoe Two at once! He's a pro ;)

  • @piumisujatha3258
    @piumisujatha3258 7 лет назад

    It is beutifull lv storyyy

  • @gilangsetyawibawa185
    @gilangsetyawibawa185 5 лет назад +1

    Hadestown brought me here

  • @ElvenArtist
    @ElvenArtist 12 лет назад +1

    His song he played should be in a big "Greek Myths" soundtrack, with all the songs from the past greek myth videos.

  • @classicchelsea4105
    @classicchelsea4105 7 лет назад

    I thought that orpheus played lyre

  • @brandenowens
    @brandenowens 11 лет назад

    Dat duel flute

  • @sarahluna850
    @sarahluna850 Год назад

    Dread Persephone, of course, a victim. Sarcasm

  • @ItzEazyGabe
    @ItzEazyGabe 6 лет назад +1

    eurydice is my sister

  • @LifeComedyAction
    @LifeComedyAction 5 лет назад

    Are those cgi flutes?

  • @reoreborn1209
    @reoreborn1209 9 лет назад +3

    I bet he could play a good tune on the old skin flute.

  • @KoraggRules
    @KoraggRules 12 лет назад

    funny i though he play a harp not the flute

  • @cazlynbadal3324
    @cazlynbadal3324 5 лет назад

    I thought it was a lyre

  • @necromancercomm
    @necromancercomm 6 лет назад

    i thought he was playing a harp not a fluite

  • @brandenowens
    @brandenowens 11 лет назад

    spoiler alert he looks back and doesn't save her...

  • @KBunny13
    @KBunny13 11 лет назад

    some deep sheet is going on over here..

  • @cheezyb33f
    @cheezyb33f 4 года назад

    MODULE PA MORE

  • @wandereagle4785
    @wandereagle4785 7 лет назад

    mythology means which is fake..

    • @Ya-kz7lg
      @Ya-kz7lg 6 лет назад

      bababob wandereagle No...not really. A myth just means a story, and in the ancient Greek definition, it meant anything delivered by word of mouth.

    • @Ya-kz7lg
      @Ya-kz7lg 6 лет назад

      It only started meaning untrue in the 1840s

  • @TheCvetelinaa
    @TheCvetelinaa 8 лет назад +6

    This is so untrue... Orpheus lived in the land of Bulgaria. He has nothing with Greece AND he was playing the haarp, not the flute. Peaople are getting confused because of these shits.

    • @TheCvetelinaa
      @TheCvetelinaa 8 лет назад +4

      Greeks were followers of Orpheus but he was a thracian, not a greek. And the original story of Orpheus happened in the Rodopa mountain in Bulgaria. Including the cave of Hades.

    • @tamaradimarco878
      @tamaradimarco878 6 лет назад +3

      He played a lyre, not a harp. And he's definitely part of the Greek mythology.

  • @VivianDanger
    @VivianDanger 5 лет назад +1

    I am very disappointed reading a lot of the popular comments on this.
    For anyone who is having difficulty enjoying this because of it's interpretation of a fable, let us remember; this is just an interpretation of a fable.
    This is someones vision of something that was a fiction.
    This was designed to delight and inform children and adults of all ages, and to garner their interest in the subtext. A fun moral and civics class.
    There's no reason whatsoever to champion a cause about it's inaccuracies.
    It's a fun show, based on a fun story. The myths that impacted and anticipated all manner of things.
    This is still JUST a story. Every story has many versions.
    If you are versed in myth and legend than clearly you must be aware of that.
    So let's un-clench our over-informed buttholes and maybe just enjoy something.
    If you wanted to have a televised version of your 'exact' exploration of Greek mythology, then present your prospects to a publishing agency that connects to millions of human beings as well, and see how it stacks up to a good story... which is, again, all this is
    A story told.
    I guarantee that your presentation of 'accurate' Greek mythos is something that the History Channel or thousands of lesser publishers would not give a glance toward, as they have already published, aired, considered, denied and cancelled such things. Wouldn't even have validated your parking.
    That market is saturated. So instead of trying to lambaste a work of passion (how Greek!) that is a contribution toward something you appreciate, consider how little your opinion matters against that depiction.
    This is a Jim Henson production. That alone tells us we know it will be a fantastical thing. Something to make us feel good, and curious, and hopefully inspired to explore.
    Not a fucking quantification of your version and experience of the classics.
    It is someone else's version.
    Tell us yours.
    OR...
    Do anything that shows the world you're worth even being on it.
    Post it right here and prove me wrong.
    I am waiting, little critic...

  • @HackingtheMatrixLoA
    @HackingtheMatrixLoA 4 года назад

    who's here because arcade fire?

  • @joshf4959
    @joshf4959 7 месяцев назад

    2024

  • @satka94
    @satka94 7 лет назад

    By the way Orpheus is Bulgarian,born in the Rhodope mountains. It's funny how Greeks are being trying to wipe our story way back since the time of the Thracians.

    • @almanacofsleep
      @almanacofsleep 6 лет назад +2

      He has no origin in Thracian mythology. His supposed Thracian roots are not at all clear and the fact remains that he exists in Greek mythology, which is not in doubt, since it is his mention in Greek literature and Greek cults that are known. To us to argue over whether he is "Greek" or "Bulgarian" is pointless as nether nation existed during his time.

    • @A4omanolov
      @A4omanolov 6 лет назад

      almanacofsleep Orpheus was in fact Thracian and there is No doubt about it. It is time for you to open A more modern book and read about it. In all Greek ceramics Where Orpheus is depicked you can see he is surrounded by people dressed in a typical Thracian Clothes caring two spears. The spears were a symbol for the Thracian Culture at that time. On those Ceramics You can see tattoos on the people which were also typical for the Thracians. So Greeks new he was Thracian and they are showing it. I can go on and on. They are so many new theories that Orpheus actually exist (as a human ) that his legend later on glorified him as kind of God and Orphism was born. Sounds familiar like Jesus Christ!!! Orphism was very popular among the Thracians not the Greeks. Archeologists believe that the Rodopi mountain is where Orphius lived and they are evidence that he might be even buried there among the many many cults that you can find in the Rodopi mountain. And most Thracians lived in the territory of today's Bulgaria. Bulgarians are Descenders of the Thracians but you cannot say Orpheus was Bulgarian this is absurd.

    • @A4omanolov
      @A4omanolov 6 лет назад

      almanacofsleep you also mentioned the Greek literature. Many Greek authors mentioned the Thracians and they never ever associated them as Greeks. First was Homer and I forgot who wrote that the Thracians were so many.... as many as the sand. Thracians were real and they had different social system than Greeks.

    • @Ya-kz7lg
      @Ya-kz7lg 6 лет назад +1

      Satka94 Bulgarians aren't exactly the same as thracians. They are culturally and genetically different. Modern Bulgarians are more Slavic, both in terms of ancestry and culture.

    • @A4omanolov
      @A4omanolov 6 лет назад

      Andrew Shepard recent genetic tests prove that 40% of modern Bulgarians still carry Thracian blood. Now i am not sure how accurate those tests are but I came a cross few studies and the all say the same... 40%

  • @suciodan5817
    @suciodan5817 5 лет назад

    orpheus live a true lie...........and what a hades!!!! comes from a metal video clip.........

  • @tsusterax4955
    @tsusterax4955 2 года назад +1

    nood well grade 10

  • @ironman2818
    @ironman2818 3 года назад

    The direction is so bad....

  • @paolozapata8392
    @paolozapata8392 8 лет назад

    hololal

  • @jaidejong9222
    @jaidejong9222 6 лет назад

    Skeer

  • @KoraggRules
    @KoraggRules 12 лет назад +1

    aaahh...what kind of skin???

  • @Rolian10
    @Rolian10 4 года назад

    Dreadful act

  • @deniboy03
    @deniboy03 7 лет назад

    Bulgarian myth*

    • @Ya-kz7lg
      @Ya-kz7lg 6 лет назад +4

      Deni Boy It was written by a Greek, and was about a thracian, which is not the same as a Bulgarian.

  • @breadbutt
    @breadbutt 12 лет назад +1

    Orpheus plays two magical flutes at once! made of skin!

  • @breadbutt
    @breadbutt 12 лет назад

    yeah, the SKIN harp