Eurydice

Hymen had been called to bless with his presence the nuptials of Orpheus with Eurydice; but though he attended, he brought no happy omens with him. His very torch smoked and brought tears into their eyes.

Eurydice, shortly after her marriage, while wandering with the nymphs, her companions, was seen by the shepherd Aristæus, who was struck with her beauty and made advances to her. She fled, and in flying trod upon a snake in the grass, was bitten in the foot, and died.

His shade passed a second time to Tartarus, where he sought out his Eurydice and embraced her with eager arms.

That same week, a twenty-two-year-old comedian named Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered as she walked home after work.