god
Orpheus
also: Orpheus
The legendary Thracian singer, said to be the son of a Muse. Cotta argues that if Achilles is a god for having a goddess mother, then Orpheus and Rhesus, born of Muses, must be gods as well.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.98 to converse with Orpheus, Musaeus, Homer, Hesiod
The great poets and singers of old whom Socrates hopes to meet among the dead: the legendary Orpheus and Musaeus, and the epic masters Homer and Hesiod. The catalogue makes death a longed-for reunion with the noble dead.