1. Eurydice - Noun
2. Eurydice - Proper noun
(Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus
Source: WordNetSuch strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live. John Milton
Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot's wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked. Caitlín R. Kiernan
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind. Julian Barnes
As in the legend, Orpheus travels to Hades, plays his sad music, loses Eurydice again, and gets torn apart by the Bacchanae (the beloved madwomen of Dionysus ) but because of his immortality survives as a disembodied head. Source: Internet
B. L. Ettinger in conversation with Emmanuel Lévinas, "Que dirait Eurydice?" Source: Internet
Eurydice sneaks in disguised as a bacchante ("J'ai vu le dieu Bacchus"), but Jupiter's plan to sneak her out is interrupted by calls for a dance. Source: Internet