eurydice

Orpheus & Eurydice in The Matrix The Matrix series integrates the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, particularly in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Resurrections (2021).

It is a re-telling of the classical Orpheus myth, with Eurydice being taken by faeries instead of bitten by a snake.

Neo and Trinity’s love story parallels Orpheus’ quest to rescue Eurydice from the underworld.

That's without mentioning the Eurydice Dixon and Aiia Maasarwe cases, which were really unsettling.

The only difference is that Christians believed that the few who accepted Christ would be rescued from Hell, the same way Eurydice was saved by Orpheus (hence the idea that the church is the bride of Jesus).

And within larger culture, there was the animated film Hercules, the Percy Jackson novels, and a broadway musical based on Orpheus and Eurydice that swept the Tony awards in the last twenty years.

This is not proof in a scientific sense, it's not irrefutable, but you have to ask if the young woman and infant are not Cleopatra Eurydice and her son Caranus, who exactly are they?

For example, sticking with ancient myths, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice ends with the hero's defeat, he fails his greatest challenge and returns empty-handed, nothing having been resolved, not even any wiser.

For example, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice is not in any way dulled by knowing how it ends, the moments where you were reading about Orpheus trying to reach Hades and not yet knowing if he'd succeed are not in any way wasted if you know how it does end - the dramatic tension is beautifully resolved, if tragically so.

> The context of the Iliad, ancient Greece, is completely alien to the modern US, just as it is to modern China I was taught Greek mythology in grade school, read the Odyssey and Iliad in middle school English, Antigone and Oedipus Rex in high school, and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice was a recurring theme in some college courses but that's a bit specific.

I loved this idea (and it rang very true in context) in the Hadestown musical, which is a retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice - and it begins with lyrics like "It's a sad song, it's a sad tale, it's a tragedy - but we sing it anyway".

> "Ovid wrote in his Metamorphoses that when Orpheus went down to the underworld to find his love, Eurydice, “all the places that he’d seen before / He recognized again.” He passed through these horrors to find her and began to lead her back into the light.

Sarah Ruhl's feminist Eurydice, from the same myth, subverts a story of a man's heroics in (trying to) rescue his damsel in distress, and transfers the agency to the damsel.

Now you look through the historical record of each, and you identify that there are multiple sources indicating that Philip had a young wife (Cleopatra Eurydice), who had a young son who was murdered [1].

> the story of the husband who visits the land of the dead and fails to retrieve his wife In Europe that's Orpheus and Eurydice, do you have a pointer to the north american story and perhaps a source for the claim that it's really the same story (background)?