[Script Info]
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[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.73,0:00:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the perfect wedding, \Nthe guests thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.95,0:00:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The groom was Orpheus,\Nthe greatest of all poets and musicians.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.43,0:00:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bride Eurydice, a wood nymph.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.47,0:00:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone could tell the couple \Nwas truly and deeply in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.54,0:00:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly, Eurydice stumbled, \Nthen fell to the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.09,0:00:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time Orpheus reached her side,\Nshe was dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.62,0:00:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the snake that had bitten \Nher was slithering away through the grass.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.63,0:00:37.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Following Eurydice’s funeral,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.53,0:00:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orpheus was overcome with a grief \Nthe human world could not contain,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.86,0:00:46.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so he decided he would journey \Nto the land of the dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.39,0:00:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a place from which no living creature \Nhad ever returned, to rescue his beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.90,0:00:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Orpheus reached the gates of the\Nunderworld, he began to strum his lyre.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.62,0:01:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The music was so beautiful that Cerberus,\Nthe three-headed dog who guards the dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.01,0:01:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lay down as Orpheus passed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.88,0:01:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charon, the ferry captain who charged \Ndead souls to cross the River Styx,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.99,0:01:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was so moved by the music that he brought \NOrpheus across free of charge.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.88,0:01:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Orpheus entered \Nthe palace of Hades and Persephone,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.40,0:01:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the king and queen of the dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.35,0:01:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he began to sing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.23,0:01:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He sang of his love for Eurydice, \Nand said she had been taken away too soon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.10,0:01:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day would come when she, \Nlike all living creatures,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.47,0:01:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dwelled in the land of the\Ndead for all eternity,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.79,0:01:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so couldn’t Hades grant \Nher just a few more years on Earth?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.76,0:01:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the moment after Orpheus finished, \Nall hell stood still.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.13,0:01:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sisyphus no longer rolled his rock\Nup the hill.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.94,0:01:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tantalus did not reach for the water \Nhe would never be allowed to drink.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.01,0:01:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the Furies, \Nthe demonic goddesses of vengeance, wept.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.03,0:02:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hades and Persephone granted\NOrpheus’s plea, but on one condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.29,0:02:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As he climbed back out of the underworld,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.66,0:02:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he must not turn around to see \Nif Eurydice was following behind him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.30,0:02:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If he did, she would return\Nto the land of the dead forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.58,0:02:17.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orpheus began to climb.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.45,0:02:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With each step,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.58,0:02:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he worried more and more \Nabout whether Eurydice was behind him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.05,0:02:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He heard nothing—\Nwhere were her footsteps?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.55,0:02:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally, just before he stepped out \Nof the underworld
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.89,0:02:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and into the bright light of day,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.90,0:02:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gave into temptation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.84,0:02:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orpheus tried to return to the underworld,\Nbut was refused entry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.86,0:02:40.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Separated from Eurydice,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.99,0:02:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orpheus swore never\Nto love another woman again.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.65,0:02:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, he sat in a grove of trees \Nand sang songs of lovers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.34,0:02:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was Ganymede, the beautiful boy \Nwho Zeus made drink-bearer to the gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.39,0:02:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was Myrrah, who loved her father \Nand was punished for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.71,0:03:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Pygmalion, who sculpted \Nhis ideal woman out of ivory,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.58,0:03:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then prayed to Venus \Nuntil she came to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.07,0:03:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was Venus herself,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.73,0:03:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose beautiful Adonis \Nwas killed by a wild boar.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.92,0:03:15.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was as if Orpheus’s own love and loss
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.65,0:03:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had allowed him to see into \Nthe hearts of gods and people everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.31,0:03:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some, however, poetry was not enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.80,0:03:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A group of wild women called the Maenads
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.28,0:03:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could not bear the thought that a poet \Nwho sang so beautifully of love
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.87,0:03:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not love them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.26,0:03:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their jealousy drove them to a frenzy \Nand they destroyed poor Orpheus.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.93,0:03:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The birds, nature’s singers, \Nmourned Orpheus,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.14,0:03:46.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as did the rivers, \Nwho made music as they babbled.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.06,0:03:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world had lost two great souls.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.20,0:03:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orpheus and Eurydice had loved each other \Nso deeply that when they were separated,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.88,0:03:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orpheus had understood \Nthe pain and joys of lovers everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.70,0:04:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a new art form, \Nthe love poem, was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.56,0:04:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the world wept, Orpheus found peace,\Nand his other half, in the underworld.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.70,0:04:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, to this day, he walks with Eurydice\Nalong the banks of the River Styx.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.59,0:04:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, they stroll side by side;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.08,0:04:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes, she is in front;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.14,0:04:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes, he takes the lead, turning \Nto look back at her as often as he likes.