Eurydice

American  

[yoo-rid-uh-see, yuh-] / yʊˈrɪd əˌsi, yə- /

Also Eurydike

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. Also called Agriope.  the wife of Orpheus.

2. the wife of Creon of Thebes.

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Eurydice British  

/ jʊˈrɪdɪsɪ /

noun

1. Greek myth a dryad married to Orpheus, who sought her in Hades after she died. She could have left Hades with him had he not broken his pact and looked back at her

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Example Sentences

And she sings most of the Orpheus music from Gluck’s opera: I wish a complete recording, with equally sensitive artists taking on the roles of Eurydice and Amor, could have been put together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

Hefin Meara, a marine archaeologist at Historic England, said paintings suggested it had been used to save another naval vessel - HMS Eurydice - off the Isle of Wight in 1878.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

The actor and singer star enters Broadway’s “Hadestown,” the brooding 2019 Tony Award-winning musical about the underworld, which intertwines the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

The eight-time Tony-winning musical creatively reimagines the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice with an industrial setting, poetic lyrics and howling jazz-blues music.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Upon the death of Orpheus’s wife, Eurydice, he marched into the Underworld and played his lyre for Hades until the lord of Death, so moved, agreed to return his wife.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson