leer en español        The secret of a great love story is that the lovers are drawn together like magnets and then torn apart by circumstance. Or, as the Greeks would have it, by Fate. Orpheus and Eurydice were meant for each other but had to pass through Hell before they could be reunited.Orpheus was a musician and a poet—the John Lennon of the ancient world, if such comparisons can serve. When he played the lyre, birds hushed in the trees, wild beasts paused mid-stride, and Eurydice felt her heart flutter as if an angel had settled behind her ribs. No description can contain the beauty of his music; the only true comparison is Eurydice herself.Before he met her, Orpheus had wandered far. In Egypt, among desert sands and secret rites, he learned ceremonies unknown even to the Greeks. The...