Orpheus and Eurydice is a story of Greek mythology about a demigod named Orpheus, who created incredible music from his lyre. He met a wood nymph named Eurydice who agreed to be his wife. Less than an hour after their marriage became official, Eurydice was bitten and killed by a viper. The now-bereft Orpheus traveled to the Underworld, the land where the dead go. With nothing but his lyre and his songs, he found a crack in a dark cave that would take him to the Underworld, to retrieve the soul of Eurydice. Nothing in the Underworld could resist the sound of his music. The boatman Charon heard the sound of the lyre, and ferried Orpheus across the River Styx. Cerberus, the three-headed dog that prevents mortals from entering the Underworld,