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GCSE Classics · key term
Supernatural female figures associated with punishment, whose unprecedented tears show how deeply Orpheus’s song moves the underworld.
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Paper 1
Revise: RomeEven the Furies cry, reportedly for the first time. Moving figures associated with punishment makes the achievement seem greater than merely moving an ordinary audience. The king and queen cannot bear to refuse his prayer and summon Eurydice.
Support interpretations with a precise detail or short quotation, then explain its effect: the Furies’ unprecedented tears demonstrate the extraordinary power of Orpheus’s music.
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