Muses decided to save his head and keep it among the living people to sing forever, enchanting everyone with his melodies. They additionally cast his lyre into the sky as a constellation. Retellings Literature The Death of Eurydice episode which occurs in Book IV of Georgics by Virgil (29 BC) and Book X of Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 AD) The poem "Orpheus and Eurydice" in The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (594 AD) Sir Orfeo, an anonymous narrative poem (c. late thirteenth or early fourteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene, a poem by Robert Henryson (c.1470) "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes", a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1907) Sonnets to Orpheus, an allusive sonnet sequence by poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1922) The Song of Orpheus, part of volume 6 (Fables and Reflections) of the Sandman by Neil Gaiman (1990) Enchanted Fire, a romance novel by Roberta Gellis (1996) The Ground Beneath Her Feet, novel by Salman Rushdie (1999) "Eurydice", a poem by Carol Ann Duffy in her collection of poems, The World's Wife (1999) Veniss Underground, a novel by Jeff Vandermeer (2003) Poetry and Fear, a novel by Grace Andreacchi (2008) "Syringa", a poem by John Ashbery, later set to music by Elliott Carter "Hymn to Persephone", a poem by Craig Arnold in Made Flesh (2008) "Cocktails with Orpheus", a poem by Terrance Hayes (2008) A Song for Ella Grey, a novel by David Almond Bone Gap, a novel by Laura Ruby Goat Song, a novelette by Poul Anderson (1972) "Eurydice's Footnote", a 1995 poem by A. E. Stallings "The Underground", a 1984 poem by Seamus Heaney Asterios Polyp, a graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli (2009) Film and stage The Orphic Trilogy, a series of films by Jean Cocteau (1930–1959) Eurydice, a play by Jean Anouilh (1941) Orfeu da Conceição, a play by Vinicius de Moraes (1956) Orpheus Descending, a play by Tennessee Williams (1957) Black Orpheus, a film by Marcel Camus (1959) Evrydiki BA 2O37, a film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis (1975) Parking, a film by Jacques Demy (1985) Shredder Orpheus, a film by Robert McGinley (1989) An episode of The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1990) Highway to Hell, a very, very loose adaptation film by Ate de Jong (1992). What Dreams May Come, a film by Vincent Ward (1998) Orfeu, film by Cacá Diegues (1999) Metamorphoses, play by Mary Zimmerman (2002) Eurydice, play by Sarah Ruhl (2003)