Ereading compared to music sector

Ian Hudson, president of the Publishers Association and deputy chief executive of the Random House Group, believes while Ebooks reader presents a great opportunity, he did not feel ereading is yet capable of doing for books what the iPod did for music.

He said: "In my view this is the best piece of equipment out there. But research has found that people have a high emotional attachment to physical books... so the industry is likely to be slower to change than the music sector."

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Limbs of Orpheus

Orpheus was killed by the women of Thrace.

The motive and manner of his death vary in different accounts, but the earliest known, that of Aeschylus, says that they were Maenads urged by Dionysus to tear him to pieces in a Bacchic orgy because he preferred the worship of the rival god Apollo. His head, still singing, with his lyre, floated to Lesbos, where an oracle of Orpheus was established. The head prophesied until the oracle became more famous than that of Apollo at Delphi, at which time Apollo himself bade the Orphic oracle stop. The dismembered limbs of Orpheus were gathered up and buried by the Muses. His lyre they had placed in the heavens as a constellation.

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Orphic movement

A Hellenistic mystery religion based on the teachings and songs of Orpheus is thought to have eventually arisen in ancient Greece, although no coherent description of such a religion can be constructed from historical evidence.

Most scholars agree that by the 5th century BC there was at least an Orphic movement, with traveling priests who offered teaching and initiation, based on a body of legend and doctrine said to have been founded by Orpheus. Part of the Orphic ritual is thought to have involved the mimed or actual dismemberment of an individual representing the god Dionysus, who was then seen to be reborn.

Orphic eschatology laid great stress on rewards and punishment after bodily death, the soul then being freed to achieve its true life.

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Sun again with Eurydice

Upon leaving the land of death, both Orpheus and Eurydice were forbidden to look back.

The couple climbed up toward the opening into the land of the living, and Orpheus, seeing the Sun again, turned back to share his delight with Eurydice.

In that moment, she disappeared.

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Beautiful songs

When Orpheus' wife, Eurydice, was killed by the bite of a serpent, he went down to the underworld to bring her back.

His songs were so beautiful that Hades finally agreed to allow Eurydice to return to the world of the living. However, Orpheus had to meet one condition: he must not look back as he was conducting her to the surface. Just before the pair reached the upper world, Orpheus looked back, and Eurydice slipped back into the netherworld once again.

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Voice and writing from Orpheus

Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans.

With his lyre he could turn the course of rivers, drown the fatal song of the Sirens, and charm the denizens of the underworld. The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious compositions, with lyrics that only the initiated could understand after undergoing secret rites.

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