Orpheus and Eurydice | The Storyteller: Greek Myths | The Jim Henson Company

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Orpheus goes to the underworld to rescue his true love.
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[@sipioc]

This series is criminally under appreciated

[@galkali]

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

[@StringedYak]

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]

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]

Hades is not as bad as he is portrayed :(

[@tanncheevasit2398]

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

[@eirennmurtagh709]

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]

"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]

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]

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

[@angelicab.7844]

Waaaaaiiiitttttt I’m coming with you

[@potatomo9609]

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

[@jish55]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@chancycat9822]

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!

[@Josh3B]

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

[@VivienLadyO]

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]

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.

[@FEARLESSGaming27]

Ahem, he played a lyre.

[@YourMomz07]

it appears you made liars of them...

[@Firefox-qi1bi]

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

[@waterlily7075]

FEARLESSGaming I know this because I watch rick and martison👌

[@chancycat9822]

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

[@malahamavet]

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

[@TheMechanician]

Spoiler: He looked.

[@snehasartgallery969]

But why he looked back?

[@chancycat9822]

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...

[@annarosedeleonguerrero505]

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]

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

[@Mavado1]

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

[@chancycat9822]

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

[@brittybee6615]

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]

Medea was the woman who killed her kids

[@karaokeandrandomclips]

@@chancycat9822 Ok, calm down lol

[@Armudusk]

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

[@SharontheRedBaron]

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]

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.

[@DonovanBeveridge5875]

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

[@discoverydavid]

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

[@Josh3B]

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

[@doyleperkins4916]

Beautiful production. Bravo!

[@dabbingtardis8277]

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]

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

[@buffalojoe4444]

Dude that line hades has is amazing

[@johnmartin4119]

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

[@CubanPete1990]

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

[@hayleywatkinson3169]

Amazing series and this is the best one.

[@musicmike1960]

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

[@americaroleplayer]

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.

[@ellinida010]

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]

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

[@shenni7158]

Am I the only one who loves Greek mythology!

[@jivkogg]

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

[@MrMexijorge]

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

[@hubavenaland4749]

actually, it's vice versa :)

[@diegofernandez7504]

And this is still Greek mythology

[@TheCvetelinaa]

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...?!

[@MrTobik87]

BEST SHOW EVER

[@VChong1991]

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

[@deanmonaghan1176]

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

[@waterlily7075]

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

[@ElvenArtist]

I watched these last year in language arts

[@icarus7z7]

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

[@sakunaruful]

Check Amazon Prime.

[@ricegum2713]

I am learning about greek myths

[@ke2delight]

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.

[@Connor-fj5rc]

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.

[@TBgunsandbutter]

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

[@sanahalsingh1065]

But Orpheus played a lyre didn't he?

[@GoRY69R]

I want to see the rest of this now lol.

[@ElvenArtist]

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

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Ha, it's Gina Bellman from Leverage!

[@Kingink7]

Orpheus played the lyre

[@hodgepodgebuhgodge3739]

Orpheus DID look back.

[@chancycat9822]

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

[@pedropedro9605]

Marco Nanini aí, foda! Como sempre

[@Jobe-13]

He played a lyre. Not pipes.

[@mikejohndeelanuza207]

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

[@rujor]

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

[@sagpuif]

Does anyone know the name of the songs he played?

[@MoonCakeisaLie]

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

[@Timamalao]

Do you have more clips? :D

[@ukryelena786]

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.

[@gilangsetyawibawa185]

Hadestown brought me here

[@effielunn]

it's Abner Brown!

[@brandenowens]

Dat duel flute

[@piumisujatha3258]

It is beutifull lv storyyy

[@ellnats]

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

[@sarahluna850]

Dread Persephone, of course, a victim. Sarcasm

[@reoreborn1209]

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

[@marinairusta1975]

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

[@cazlynbadal3324]

I thought it was a lyre

[@necromancercomm]

i thought he was playing a harp not a fluite

[@classicchelsea4105]

I thought that orpheus played lyre

[@ItzEazyGabe]

eurydice is my sister

[@LifeComedyAction]

Are those cgi flutes?

[@brandenowens]

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

[@KoraggRules]

funny i though he play a harp not the flute

[@TheCvetelinaa]

you are actually right

[@KBunny13]

some deep sheet is going on over here..

[@cheezyb33f]

MODULE PA MORE

[@HackingtheMatrixLoA]

who's here because arcade fire?

[@TheCvetelinaa]

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]

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]

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

[@wandereagle4785]

mythology means which is fake..

[@Ya-kz7lg]

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]

It only started meaning untrue in the 1840s

[@tsusterax4955]

nood well grade 10

[@joshf4959]

2024

[@VivianDanger]

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...

[@LisaSmith-rc8hp]

I'm a morbally terrified now

[@ironman2818]

The direction is so bad....

[@suciodan5817]

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

[@satka94]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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%

[@paolozapata8392]

hololal

[@jaidejong9222]

Skeer

[@KoraggRules]

aaahh...what kind of skin???

[@Rolian10]

Dreadful act

[@deniboy03]

Bulgarian myth*

[@Ya-kz7lg]

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