Orpheus went to the underworld to rescue his wife from death. He was allowed to take her back to the living, on the condition that he not look back at her until they were out. He worried that she wasn't following, looked back to check on her, and she disappeared back into the land of the dead.

Meet_My_Member t1_jegjgv6 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:16 PM

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At first I thought it said Oedipus, and expected the punchline to say “It was a real mother fucker”

I once tried to create a comedy routine based on the myth of Orpheus.

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