" After being allowed to stage only 2 dance performances ( Orfeo and Eurydice in 1936 and an evening of dances choreographed to the music of Igor Stravinsky in 1937 ), Balanchine moved the company to Hollywood in 1938.

In Renault's version, the villainous Cassander slows down his advance on Macedonia to give Olympias enough time to kill Arrhidaeus and Eurydice.

While this is not the classical myth of Orpheus, the poet shows substantial ingenuity in merging the Orpheus of mythology, who tries and fails to obtain the return of his wife Eurydice from the underworld, with the traditional fairy motifs of the fairy raid or hunt, the fairies ' otherworldly kingdom, their attempts to abduct mortals, and the magical transformations endured by those who are captured by them.

The first figure, which represents Eurydice in flames and smoke, in the act of leaving Hades, was completed towards the close of his sixteenth year.

Therefore, Ixion is bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, at first spinning across the heavens, but in later myth transferred to Tartarus Only when Orpheus played his lyre during his trip to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop for a while.

After the death of her first husband, Berenice travelled to Egypt with her children as a lady-in-waiting for her mother ’ s first cousin Eurydice who was the wife of Ptolemy I. Ptolemy I was one of the generals of King Alexander the Great and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

The explorer spaceship Eurydika ( Eurydice ) first travels to a black hole near the Beta Harpiae to perform maneuvers to minimize the effects of time dilation.

She performed in her first opera in 1928, as Eurydice in a school production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany.

Ptolemy had other wives, first Eurydice of Egypt, and later Berenice I of Egypt, who became his principal consort and mother of his heir.

Eurydice was then the wife of Ptolemy I Soter, the first Greek Pharaoh and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Eurydice is forced once again to run for her life from first Mira, then Death.

In the first performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607 the roles of Eurydice and Proserpina were both sung by castrati.

Demetrius ’ maternal grandparents were the first Greek-Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter and noblewoman Eurydice.

In the fall of 2009, Bentonville High School was allegedly the first high school to perform Sarah Ruhl's riveting play, Eurydice.

Nevertheless, for the first time events in the life of a royal woman were also central to the political arena of Macedonia in that period and Eurydice was, however, the most important factor in the change.

He had two children with his wife, Eurydice: Megareus ( also called Menoeceus ) and Haemon.

The play begins with Eurydice and Orpheus, two young lovers, who are about to get married.

After Philip II had been assassinated and Alexander the Great had become king ( October 336 BC ), Cleopatra Eurydice, her two children, and Attalus were all killed ( Cleopatra Eurydice may have died by her own hand after the murders of her children ).

Even without the resentment between the two men, Alexander probably felt Attalus was too ambitious to remain alive, and would have good reason for revenge after the deaths of Cleopatra Eurydice and her children.

Arsinoe I had two older siblings: a brother called Agathocles and a sister called Eurydice.

Queen Eurydice asked the Athenian general Iphicrates ( their father ’ s adoptive son ) to protect the throne for her two sons.

Eurydice ’ s tomb had faced robbery and was partially plundered since antiquity, probably soon after queen ’ s burial, but the looters had probably failed in their mission, as evidenced by two skeletons found there.

Cassander further effects an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King Philip III Arrhidaeus of Macedon.

She is initially successful, defeating the army of King Philip III Arrhidaeus and captures King Philip and his wife, Eurydice, as well as Cassander's brother, Nicanor, and has them murdered.

When news arrived in Macedonia that Arrhidaeus had been chosen as king, Cynane, a daughter of Philip II, matured the design to travel to Asia and offer the new king her daughter Eurydice for wife.

* Smith, William ( editor ); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, " Arrhidaeus ( 1 )", " Eurydice ( 3 )", Boston, ( 1867 )

Studies by Eugene N. Borza, utilizing the construction of ceilingsthe of Tomb II, the incorporation of a weight measurement system introduced by Alexander the Great on golden objects in the tomb, Asian themes on the tomb's friezes, and the discovery of a scepter similar to that found on coins minted under Alexander's reign, as well as studies which utilized anthropological data, suggest that this tomb belongs to Alexander's half-brother Philip III Arrhidaeus and his wife, Adea Eurydice.

They were met by an army commanded by King Philip Arrhidaeus and his wife Eurydice, which immediately defected, leaving the king and Eurydice to Olympias's not so tender mercies, and they were killed ( 317 BC ).

They were met by an army commanded by King Philip Arrhidaeus and his wife Eurydice, which immediately defected, leaving the king and Eurydice to Olympias's not so tender mercies, and they were killed ( 317 BC ).

Shortly thereafter, Polyperchon was driven from Macedon by Cassander, who took control of the disabled king Philip Arrhidaeus and his wife Eurydice.

By his wife Eurydice, Amyntas had three sons, Alexander II, Perdiccas III and the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II of Macedon.

Proserpina played her cetra to quiet Cerberus, but Orpheus did not respect her order never to look back, and Eurydice was lost.

Philip was the youngest son of the king Amyntas III and Eurydice I.

Further convoluting the case is the possible role of propaganda in the surviving accounts: Attalus was executed in Alexander's consolidation of power after the murder ; one might wonder if his enrollment among the conspirators was not for the effect of introducing political expediency in an otherwise messy purge ( Attalus had publicly declared his hope that Alexander would not succeed Philip, but rather that a son of his own niece Eurydice, recently married to Philip and brutally murdered by Olympias after Philip's death, would gain the throne of Macedon ).

Only when Orpheus came down to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop spinning because of the music Orpheus was playing.

When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of the death of Haemon, she too took her own life.

* Another Aganippe was the wife of Acrisius, and according to some accounts the mother of Danaë, although the latter is more commonly called a daughter of Eurydice.

By the time of Virgil's Georgics, the myth has Aristaeus chasing Eurydice when she was bitten by a serpent and died.

When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their deaths, she, too, took her own life.

According to Sophocles ' play Antigone, Haemon or Haimon (, Haimon " bloody "; gen .: Αἴμωνος ), was the son of Creon and Eurydice.

In Greek mythology, Danaë () was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice.

# King Aretus of Pylos was a son of Nestor and Eurydice ( or Anaxibia ).

He married ( and was murdered by ) Hecabe or Eurydice, daughter of Danaus and the naiad Caliadne, daughter of Nilus and Polyxo's sister.

In spring 2011 Resnais completed filming Vous n ' avez encore rien vu, which again took the theatre as its theme and background, and was loosely based on Jean Anouilh's 1941 play Eurydice.

' Starsong ' in Berserker Wars was a fairly obvious adaptation of ' Orpheus and Eurydice '.

Most notably, the element of the myth in which Orpheus looks back at Eurydice as she is being led out of the underworld, exactly what he was told not to do and which causes him to lose her, is represented by Orpheus happening to glance at Eurydice in the rear-view mirror of a car.

When the Seven arrived at Nemea, and were very thirsty, they met Hypsipile, who was carrying Opheltes ( Grk Ὀφέλτης ), the child of the priest of Zeus and of Eurydice.

Alexander was the son of Amyntas I and Queen Eurydice.