Literature
- The Death of Eurydice episode which occurs in Book X of Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 AD)
- The poem "Orpheus and Eurydice" in "The Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius (594 AD)
- Sir Orfeo, anonymous narrative poem (c. late thirteenth century)
- The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene, poem by Robert Henryson (c.1470)
- Sonnets to Orpheus, allusive sonnet sequence by poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1922)
- The Einstein Intersection a novel by Samuel R. Delany (1967)
- Gravity's Rainbow, novel by Thomas Pynchon, (1973)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet, novel by Salman Rushdie, (1999)
- "Eurydice" a poem by Carol Anne Duffy in her collection of revisionist poems, The World's Wife. (1999)
- Veniss Underground, novel by Jeff Vandermeer, (2003)
- Enchanted Fire a romance novel by Roberta Gellis, (1996)
- Poetry and Fear a novel by Grace Andreacchi, (2008)
- "Hymn to Persephone" a poem by Craig Arnold in Made Flesh (2008)
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