• Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol 107) (Hardcover)

by Carlos Parada,# ISBN-10: 9170810621,# ISBN-13: 978-9170810626

• The Greek Gods by Hoopes And Evslin , ISBN-10: 0590441108, ISBN-10: 0590441108, 1995, page 77

His father was a Thracian king; His mother the muse Calliope. For a while he lived on Parnassus with his mother and his eight beautiful aunts and there met Apollo who was courting the laughing muse Thalia . Apollo was taken with Orpheus, gave him his little golden lyre, and taught him to play. And his mother taught him to make verses for singing.

• Strabo. 7.7
• Apollodorus (Pseudo Apollodorus), Library and Epitome, 1.3.2. "Orpheus also invented the mysteries of Dionysus, and having been torn in pieces by the Maenads he is buried in Pieria."
• The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest by Benjamin H. Isaac
• Myth and the Polis by Dora Carlisky Pozzi,John Moore
• Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind by Yulia Ustinova
• Blank map from Image:Map greek sanctuaries-fr.svg.