Orpheus

Orpheus’ parents are under dispute but I’m going with the most favored which is that his mother was the muse Calliope and his father the Thracian King, Oeagrus. Orpheus played the most dazzling, magical music, mostly with the lyre, people and gods from all over would come to hear him play. On the day of their wedding, his wife Eurydice, was attacked by a satyr and fell into a viper pit where she was fatally bitten on the heel. He played such sorrowful music that all the humans, nymphs and gods cried, on the suggestion from the gods he went down to the Underworld to see if he could retrieve his wife. His music soothed Hades and Persephone and they gave him permission to take his wife with him back to the land of the living, on one condition; he was to walk in front of her and not look back until they were both out of the Underworld. In his haste to be reunited with his wife, as soon as he was out of the Underworld, Orpheus turned back to gaze upon his beautiful wife, forgetting that they were both supposed to be out before he was allowed to turn back. In doing so, she disappeared from him again, never to return.

Image by Foto di Giovanni Dall’Orto – Own work, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1303452