Orpheus in Wikipedia

Orpheus (Greek: Ὀρφεύς; in English pronounced /ˈɔrfi.əs/ or / ˈɔrfjuːs/) is an important figure from Greek mythology,[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] the inspiration for subsequent Orphic cults, much of the literature, poetry and drama of ancient Greece and Rome and, due to his association with singing and the lyre, much dramatic Western classical music. The historicity of Orpheus was generally accepted by the ancients, though Aristotle believed that he never actually existed.[9] He is not mentioned in Homer or Hesiod. The earliest surviving reference is a two-word fragment of the sixth-century B.C. lyric poet Ibycus: onomaklyton Orphēn ("Orpheus famous of name").[10] Orpheus was called by Pindar "the father of songs"[11] and asserted to be a son of the Thracian river god Oeagrus.[12] The Muse Calliope was his mother,[13] but as Karl Kerenyi observes,[14] "in the popular mind he was more closely linked to the community of his disciples and adherents than with any particular race or family"...