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The Georgics

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 The Georgics is a work of pastoral poetry by Virgil in 39 BC. It mainly deals with agriculture, nature, and the gods who watch over such domains. However, the fourth book of The Georgics switchers to a narrative mode to tell the story of how a legendary bee-keeper is to blame for the tragedy of Orpheus. Orpheus' tale is probably what this poem is best known for today, as it is the primary source of the myth along with Ovid's account in The Metamorphoses.
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 Arcadia: The entire point of the poem is to present a glorified picture of nature. It also happens to be the Trope Namer, since Virgil was the first writer to associate the historical region of Arcadia with an idealized haven of natural beauty.
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 To Hell and Back
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 To Hell and Back: The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is about a man going into the underworld to save his true love. His hero Aeneas also makes a trip to the underworld in The Aeneid guided by the Sybil.
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 Virtuous Bees: The first half of Book IV is spent explaining how wondrous and special bees are for their skillful creation of honey and incredible organization.
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 Call to Agriculture
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 Call to Agriculture: The Georgics are a cycle of poems about agriculture and the pastoral life.
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 Sapping the Shapeshifter: Aristaeus' search for a reason why his bees are dying eventually leads him to seek answers from Proteus in the traditional fashion, ambushing and seizing the legendary shapeshifter in an attempt to get him to use his prophetic gifts. As per the myths, the old sea god rapidly shifts between the forms of animals, fires, and even a stream of water to escape the hero's grasp, until he finally exhausts himself and is forced to give in to Aristaeus' demands.
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 "Just So" Story: The reason Virgil tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice is to explain how bees came to be, since it turns out they emerged from a corpse offered to the gods by a shepherd responsible for Eurydice's death.
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 Wowing Cthulhu
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 Wowing Cthulhu: As is traditional, Orpheus' music moves the souls of Hell and the god of death to give him a secon chance with Eurydice. What is unusual to Virgil is that he describes that the realm of Hades itself is spell-bound by the music, taking the other tradition of Orpheus entertaining inanimate objects to an extreme.
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 Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
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 Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Aristaeus, a mere shepherd, manages to defeat a Proteus simply by wrestling him, even despite the sea god's attempt to escape using all his powers as a Voluntary Shapeshifter.
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 Friend to All Living Things: As in older poems like Apollonius's Argonautica, Orpheus is described in his grief as charming tigers and compelling trees to walk so they can get close enough to hear him sing.
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