Word: hebrus
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...intimations and unspoken allusions. While the content of his work is literary, its expression is far from literal. Legend recounts, for instance, that Orpheus was torn limb from limb by Thracian women infuriated at his single-minded love for Eurydice; his severed head, still singing, floated down the river Hebrus. To recall this macabre event, Boghosian mounted a wooden doll's head that had been wrenched from its body onto a weathered plank from an old snip's hull. To suggest Orpheus' irrevocable loss of Eurydice, he set a delicately featured mask inside a fluted fireplace ornament...
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