The Death of Orpheus

What Devotion Costs a Man in a World That No Longer Knows What to Do with It

Imagine a world without myth—none of the passing down from ancient civilization of the archetype represented by Orpheus.¹

The notion that there exists a love that is so powerful, so strong, it would cause a man to go to the end of the world for his beloved.

There would be no true art—no Divine Comedy written by a man whose encounter with his muse was brief…