Hades, to bring back his wife, Eurydice, and was killed by the enraged Maenads, the companions of Dionysus. These stories have frequently been used as themes in literature (in the works of Ovid, Vergil, Shelley, Rilke, V. Ia. Briusov, Viach. Ivanov, M. I. Tsvetaeva), the fine arts...
Orpheus with his lyre figured as the archetypal artist for millennia—the sweetness of his music so divine that it charmed the guardians of Hades and enabled him to retrieve his ideal from the obscure realm of the dead. Yet perhaps Orpheus’s reputation is merited less for his success at be...
This passage "fits" the novel because it helps add to the plot line. For instance, Orpheus was devoted after his wife's passing. Therefore, he was determined to go to the Underground world or also called the world of death, and try to convince the ruler of Hades (ruler of the dead)...